ABSTRACT
Gentrification is a global process that the United Nations now sees as a human rights issue. This new Planetary Gentrification Reader follows on from the editors’ 2010 volume, The Gentrification Reader, and provides a more longitudinal (backward and forward in time) and broader (turning away from Anglo-/Euro-American hegemony) sense of developments in gentrification studies over time and space, drawing on key readings that reflect the development of cutting-edge debates.
Revisiting new debates over the histories of gentrification, thinking through comparative urbanism on gentrification, considering new waves and types of gentrification, and giving much more focus to resistance to gentrification, this is a stellar collection of writings on this critical issue.
Like in their 2010 Reader, the editors, who are internationally renowned experts in the field, include insightful commentary and suggested further reading. The book is essential reading for students and researchers in urban studies, urban planning, human geography, sociology, and housing studies and for those seeking to fight this socially unjust process.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|41 pages
Thinking about gentrification today
part Two|70 pages
Planetary gentrification
part Three|68 pages
Gentrification and comparative urbanism
chapter 10|15 pages
Hybrid gentrification in South Africa
part Four|89 pages
Gentrifications beyond Anglo-America
chapter 13|18 pages
Prolonging the global age of gentrification
chapter 16|22 pages
Housing transformation, rent gap and gentrification in Ghana's traditional houses
part Five|59 pages
Planetary gentrification and digital transformations
chapter 20|13 pages
Postsocialism and the Tech Boom 2.0
part Six|70 pages
Resisting planetary gentrification