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HOUSING RETROFIT AND THE JUST TRANSITION IN THE METROPOLIS: Governance, Redistribution, and Inequality in London and Barcelona

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Metropolises are rapidly becoming spaces of stark inequalities. While much literature has emphasized the metropolitan scale as a driver of agglomeration economies, recent scholarship highlights either the ungovernable nature of large metropolises or the weak redistributive capacity of their governments as key causes of increasingly unequal ...
Lucía Cerrada Morato   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kırsal Peyzajdaki Değişim Üzerinden Soylulaştırmayı Okumak: Yunt Dağı Örneği (Manisa)

open access: yesCoğrafi Bilimler Dergisi
This study aims to determine the rural gentrification process in Yunt Mountain, which is located in a between İzmir and Manisa provinces and is an important geographical value with its physical and human geography elements.
Ferhat Arslan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

ENVIRONMENTAL STATECRAFT AND CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: Chengdu's Ecological Preservation and Eco‐development

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of environmental statecraft to study changing urban environmental politics in China and beyond. Our review of existing conceptions reveals a growing need to account for temporal and geographical complexity. Neoliberal conceptions of eco‐state restructuring are increasingly strained by contemporary geopolitical
Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

EVICT, NEGLECT, OR INVEST? Community Power and the Politics of Urban Informality Governance in Jakarta

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Why do some informal neighborhoods receive public investment while others are neglected or evicted? This article addresses the inconsistent governmental responses to informal settlements in Jakarta, Indonesia, during the democratic period. State actions range from violent evictions to tolerance and community‐led improvements.
Kadek Wara Urwasi
wiley   +1 more source

Inclusion or Exclusion? The Spatial Habitus of Rural Gentrifiers

open access: yesSocial Inclusion
Several rural areas all over the world have experienced the inflow of the urban better‐off. This rural gentrification takes various temporary and permanent forms, i.e., lifestyle migration, second‐home ownership, or short‐term visitors.
Kyra Tomay, Viktor Berger
doaj   +1 more source

CAPITALIZING CRISIS: Urban Extractivism in Athens Amidst Neoliberal Restructurings

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we examine the post‐2009 transformation of Athens through the analytical lens of urban extractivism. We argue that the Greek sovereign debt crisis did not operate as a temporary disruption, but as a durable political condition that enabled the institutionalization of extractive urban governance.
Konstantinos Zafeiris   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley   +1 more source

COSMOLOGICAL MARKINGS AND ERASURES: The Political Theology of State‐Led Gentrification and Heritagization

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rural gentrification in France, a critical approach

open access: yes, 2017
International audienceThis contribution intends to discuss the use of the concept of rural gentrification in the case of the « rural rebirth » of French rural areas.
Depraz, Samuel
core   +5 more sources

Shifting neighborhoods: Gentrification and cultural displacement in American cities

open access: yes, 2019
Gentrification is a powerful force for economic change in our cities, but it is often accompanied by extreme and unnecessary cultural displacement.1 While gentrification increases the value of properties in areas that suffered from prolonged ...
Mitchell, Bruce   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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