Gentrification as a global strategy : Neil Smith and beyond / edited by Abel Albet and Núria Benach.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
  • ©2018
Description
xxiii, 303 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

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    Editor
    Series
    Routledge critical studies in urbanism and the city
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Neil Smith and gentrification / Abel Albet and Núria Benach
    • A political-geographic project against capitalism : an essay on the work of Neil Smith / Luz Marina García Herrera and Fernando Sabaté Bel
    • The state of gentrification has always been extra-economic / Hamish Kallin
    • Gentrification : disaster, necessity, opportunity? Notes for a critical use of the concept / Francesco Indovina and Oriol Nel-Lo
    • Toward a theory of gentrification : global capital flows and the reshaping of the global semi-periphery. The cases of Greece and Brazil / Antonis Vradis
    • Making rent gap theory not true / Eric Clark
    • Rent gap theory is a political resource / Ernesto López-Morales
    • From Boise to Budapest : capital circulation, compound capitalist destruction and the persistence of homelessness / Don Mitchell
    • Revanchism, ignorance and class struggle in austerity Britain / Tom Slater
    • The class gap in gentrification : a political reading of the rent gap hypothesis / Marc Morell
    • The new urban frontier of everyday evictions : contemporary state practices of revanchism / Vickie Cooper and Kirsten Paton
    • Capturing urban rent through evictions : home dispossessions in the historic centre of Palma (Marjorca) / Sònia Vives-Miró and Onofre Rullan
    • Financialised rent gaps and the public interest in Berlin's housing crisis : reflections on N. Smith's 'generalised gentrification' / Laura Calbet I Elias
    • Beyond the 'revanchist city' : when public policies softly support gentrification in the name of social mix. The case of Inner Paris / Anne Clerval
    • Urban regeneration, rent and laour : insights from Barcelona's 'knowledge district' / Greig Charnock, Hug March, Thomas Purcell, and Ramon Ribera-Fumaz
    • A disappearing world : the ever-expanding 'frontier of gentrification' through the eyes of Porto's historic centre long-time residents / João Queirós
    • Architecture of violence : 'anti-beggar architecture' as the 'eureka' of urban regeneration / Sonia Maria Taddei Ferraz, Luis Gustavo Rosadas Campos, Mayra Duarte Lima, Paul Ramos C. Carvalho De Mendonc̦a, and Leticia Lyra Acioly
    • The urban frontier : gentrification as ideology and class politics in the remaking of marginal urban space / Catharina Thörn and Katarina Despotovic
    • Alternative geographies for social action in Medellín / Eryka Y. Torrejón Cardona
    • Alternative narratives from an invisible city : gentrification, counter-proposals and women activism / María Del Socorro Pérez Rincón Fernández
    • The onslaught against the Greek squatting movement and the value that it produced / Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou
    • Revanchism and the racial state : Ferguson as 'internal colony' / Deborah Cowen and Nemoy Lewis
    • Gentrification and the urban struggle : Neil Smith and beyond / Núria Benach and Abel Albet.
    ISBN
    • 9781138234253 (hardcover)
    • 1138234257 (hardcover)
    LCCN
    2017005730
    OCLC
    986523350
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