Planetary Gentrification

Loretta Lees is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Leicester. Hyun Bang Shin is Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Ernesto López-Morales is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Chile.

• 1. Introduction2. New Urbanizations3. New Economics4. Global Gentrifiers: Class, Capital, State5. A Global Gentrification Blueprint?6. Slum Gentrification7. Mega-Gentrification and Displacement8. ConclusionReferences

"This is an exciting and illuminating documentation of the ideologies and practices of gentrification in different parts of the globalizing world. Theoretically inspirational and empirically comprehensive, this book provides an excellent role model to show how critical comparative studies can be done for fruitful knowledge production. It makes a timely contribution that will be highly appreciated by all from the global North and South, East and West."George C. S. Lin, Hong Kong University"The authors are leading urban scholars from three continents, who advance the thesis of global gentrification and its attendant injustices through the informative lens of comparative urbanism. In doing so, they critically engage with 'both academic globalization and the globalization of capital'."David Ley, University of British Columbia"This book profoundly extends the scope of gentrification from its London-based origins to a globalizing urban world. Using a comparative perspective, the authors examine urban restructuring and displacement not as the spread of Western social-spatial forms, but as a process of planetary globalization. This book is the most lucid, nuanced and theoretically coherent treatment of gentrification and its manifestation to date."Fulong Wu, University College London"The stellar achievement of this book is its success in making sense of a planetary mélange of contemporary case studies of urban growth and development. The three coauthors bring perspectives steeped in Anglo American, Asian, and Hispanic cultural identities, yielding a densely textured portrayal of the sociopolitical dimensions of land development."Journal of Urban Affairs"[The authors] unlearn existing conceptualizations/theories, ideologies and practices/policies around gentrification, and question how experience from around the globe may enrich gentrification theory and concepts […]. Overall, they argue that the study of gentrification can help us to understand the complexity of urbanization processes […and] that the differences they identify are not radical enough to warrant dilution or dismissal of the term."Environment and Urbanization"[The authors] not only provide the reader with significant material that should start new and stimulating discussions in gentrification studies, but also challenge the way of understanding and investigating processes of gentrification. This book proves itself to be an important addition to further gentrification theory and an answer for the long-due desire to expand gentrification to the cities of the Global South."Urban Geography