Global gentrifications : uneven development and displacement / edited by Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto Lópes-Morales.

Introduction: `gentrification' - a global urban process? ~ Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto Lopez-Morales;Unravelling the yarn of gentrification trends in the contested inner city of Athens ~ Georgia Alexandri;Slum gentrification in Lisbon, Portugal: displacement and the imagined futures of an informal settlement ~ Eduardo Ascensao;City upgraded: redesigning and disciplining downtown Abu Dhabi ~ Surajit Chakravarty and Abdellatif Qamhaieh;Confronting favela chic: the gentrification of informal settlements in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ~ Jake Cummings;Rethinking gentrification in India: displacement, dispossession and the spectre of development ~ Sapana Doshi;The prospects of gentrification in downtown Cairo: artists, private investment and the neglectful state ~ Mohamed Elshahed;Widespread and diverse forms of gentrification in Israel ~ Amiram Gonen;The endogenous dynamics of urban renewal and gentrification in Seoul ~ Seong-Kyu Ha;Value extraction from land and real estate in Karachi ~ Arif Hasan;Gentrification in Buenos Aires: global trends and local features ~ Hilda Herzer, Maria Mercedes Di Virgilio and Maria Carla Rodriguez;Promoting private interest by public hands? The gentrification of public lands by housing policies in Taipei City ~ Liling Huang;The making of, and resistance to, state-led gentrification in Istanbul, Turkey ~ Tolga Islam and Bahar Sak?zl?oglu;Gentrification, neoliberalism and loss in Puebla, Mexico ~ Gareth Jones;Capital, state and conflict: the various drivers of diverse gentrification processes in Beirut, Lebanon ~ Marieke Krijnen and Christiaan De Beukelaer;Gentrification in Nigeria: the case of two housing estates in Lagos ~ Chinwe Nwanna;Gentrification in China? ~ Julie Ren;Emerging retail gentrification in Santiago de Chile: the case of Italia-Caupolican ~ Elke Schlack and Neil Turnbull;Gentrification dispositifs in the historic centre of Madrid: a reconsideration of urban governmentality and state-led urban reconfiguration ~ Jorge Sequera and Michael Janoschka;When authoritarianism embraces gentrification - the case of Old Damascus, Syria ~ Yannick Sudermann;The place of gentrification in Cape Town ~ Annika Teppo and Marianne Millstein;Conclusion: global gentrifications ~ Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto Lopez-Morales;Afterword The adventure of generic gentrification ~ Eric Clark.

This comprehensive book uses a rich array of case studies from cities in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Southern Europe, and beyond to highlight the intensifying global struggle over urban space and underline gentrification as a growing and important battleground in the contemporary world.