Planetary Gentrification

by Hyun Bang Shin, Ernesto López-Morales, Loretta Lees

Book Overview

This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global. But what do we mean by 'gentrification' today? How can we compare 'gentrification' in New York and London with that in Shanghai, Johannesburg, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro? This book argues that gentrification is one of the most significant and socially unjust processes affecting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745671659
• ISBN13: 9780745671659
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.2"