ABSTRACT
This book pays homage to Neil Smith’s ideas, offering a critical approach and rich collection of insights that draw on Smith’s work for inspiration and debate. With interdisciplinary and international contributions from leading experts, the book demonstrates the impact of Smith’s ideas on understanding the role of urbanisation in general and gentrification, in particular, in contemporary society. The book demonstrates how gentrification varies significantly from city to city, across different cultural and political-economic regimes, and in terms of the timing of urban transformations.
This collection provides a forum for debate for those working in urban regeneration and citizenship, and those directly affected by the processes and problems arising from gentrification. It will be of interest to students and scholars in urban geography, urban sociology, cultural studies, and wider social and urban theories.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|39 pages
Neil Smith
chapter 2|13 pages
A political-geographic project against capitalism
part II|55 pages
On gentrification and the rent gap theory
chapter 5|12 pages
Gentrification
chapter 6|8 pages
Toward a theory of gentrination
part III|66 pages
Dispossession and class struggle
chapter 9|15 pages
From Boise to Budapest
chapter 12|10 pages
The new urban frontier of everyday evictions
chapter 13|11 pages
Capturing urban rent through evictions
part IV|60 pages
Policies and strategies
chapter 14|14 pages
Financialised rent gaps and the public interest in Berlin’s housing crisis
chapter 15|13 pages
Beyond the ‘revanchist city’
chapter 16|7 pages
Urban regeneration, rent and labour
chapter 17|13 pages
A disappearing world
chapter 18|13 pages
Architecture of violence
part V|57 pages
Activism and resistance
chapter 19|16 pages
The urban frontier
chapter 21|13 pages
Alternative narratives from an invisible city
part VI|15 pages
Neil Smith and beyond