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1 online resource (329 pages) |
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Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City |
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Routledge critical studies in urbanism and the city.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; PART I: Neil Smith: a tribute; 1 Neil Smith and gentrification; 2 A political-geographic project against capitalism: an essay on the work of Neil Smith; 3 The apocryphal diary of Neil Smith; PART II: On gentrification and the rent gap theory; 4 The state of gentrification has always been extra-economic; 5 Gentrification: disaster, necessity, opportunity? Notes for a critical use of the concept |
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6 Toward a theory of gentrination: global capital flows and the reshaping of the global semi-periphery. The cases of Greece and Brazil7 Making rent gap theory not true; 8 Rent gap theory is a political resource; PART III: Dispossession and class struggle; 9 From Boise to Budapest: capital circulation, compound capitalist destruction and the persistence of homelessness; 10 Revanchism, ignorance and class struggle in austerity Britain; 11 The class gap in gentrification: a political reading of the rent gap hypothesis |
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12 The new urban frontier of everyday evictions: contemporary state practices of revanchism13 Capturing urban rent through evictions: home dispossessions in the historic centre of Palma (Majorca); PART IV: Policies and strategies; 14 Financialised rent gaps and the public interest in Berlin's housing crisis: reflections on N. Smith's 'generalised gentrification'; 15 Beyond the 'revanchist city': when public policies softly support gentrification in the name of social mix. The case of Inner Paris; 16 Urban regeneration, rent and labour: insights from Barcelona's 'knowledge district' |
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17 A disappearing world: the ever-expanding 'frontier of gentrification' through the eyes of Porto's historic centre long-time residents18 Architecture of violence: 'anti-beggar architecture' as the 'eureka' of urban regeneration; PART V: Activism and resistance; 19 The urban frontier: gentrification as ideology and class politics in the remaking of marginal urban space; 20 Alternative geographies for social action in Medellín; 21 Alternative narratives from an invisible city: gentrification, counter-proposals and women activism |
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22 The onslaught against the Greek squatting movement and the value that it produced23 Revanchism and the racial state: Ferguson as 'internal colony'; PART VI: Neil Smith and beyond; 24 Gentrification and the urban struggle: Neil Smith and beyond; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Smith, Neil, 1954-2012.
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| SUBJECT |
Smith, Neil, 1954-2012 fast |
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Urban renewal.
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Centrification
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urban renewal.
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Urban renewal
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Benach, Núria
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| ISBN |
9781315307503 |
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1315307502 |
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