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Index
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Acknowledgements
1: Introduction
2: New Urbanizations
Refining a concept or stretching it beyond its utility?
Gentrification in the context of planetary urbanization
Global suburbanisms and peripheral urban development
New urbanism, re-urbanization and gentrification
Conclusions
3: New Economics
Gentrification and the global economy
Gentrification and land rent
Towards a comparative urbanism of planetary rent gaps
Stigma and devaluation
The resurgence of rent gap theory
Spatial capital and gentrification
Post-crisis gentrification
Conclusions
4: Global Gentrifiers: Class, Capital, State
Politics
Lifestyle and consumption
Historic preservation: gentrifier or state-led?
Conclusions
5: A Global Gentrification Blueprint?
Gentrification/Urban Regeneration Models
Gentrification Policies
Conclusions
6: Slum Gentrification
The Gentrification Debate in Light of Contemporary Slum Conflicts
Slumbai or the Gentrification of Asia's Largest Slum
Mainland China's ‘Slum’ Redevelopment and Gentrification
From the Olympic Effect to ‘Favela Chic’: Rio de Janeiro
From Mexico to South Africa: Gentrification of Formerly Informal Districts
Evictions and the Settlers’ Insurgency for ‘the Right to Stay Put’
Conclusions
7: Mega-Gentrification and Displacement
Mega-Displacement as A Pre-requisite for Urbanization in the Global South?
Infrastructure Development and Gentrification
Mega-Gentrification, the State and Urban Accumulation in the Global South
Hidden Displacement in the Global South
Mega-Displacement: A Global South Phenomenon?
Conclusions
8: Conclusion
What We Have Learnt
From South and East to North and West
Resistance to Planetary Gentrification
Alternatives to Planetary Gentrification
References
Index
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