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Book SynopsisIt is now over 50 years since the term 'gentrification' was first coined by the British urbanist Ruth Glass in 1964, in which time gentrification studies has become a subject in its own right. This Handbook, the first ever in gentrification studies, is a critical and authoritative assessment of the field. Although the Handbook does not seek to rehearse the classic literature on gentrification from the 1970s to the 1990s in detail, it is referred to in the new assessments of the field gathered in this volume. The original chapters offer an important dialogue between existing theory and new conceptualisations of gentrification for new times and new places, in many cases offering novel empirical evidence. Scholarly contributions are drawn from both established and up and coming experts in gentrification studies world-wide, and a deliberate attempt has been made to broaden the geographical scope of study. As such, the Handbook covers processes of gentrification in the global north and the global south. It also looks at different mutations of gentrification and pays proper attention to both resistance to gentrification and the importance of thinking about alternatives. The Handbook challenges readers to look at both the future of gentrification studies as well as the actual process of gentrification itself. Gentrification studies is interdisciplinary and this Handbook will be especially useful to scholars in many fields including geography, sociology, anthropology, planning, law, urban studies, policy studies, rural studies, development studies, and cultural studies. It will also be of value to those activists fighting gentrification worldwide.Trade Review‘This Handbook undertakes such a critical and authoritative assessment of the emergent field having an important dialogue between existing theories and new conceptualizations of gentrification.’ -- Saraswati Raju, Regional Science Policy and Practice‘This excellent, wide-ranging and comprehensive Handbook deals with comparative gentrification theory, key concepts in gentrification, different types and dimensions of gentrification and resistance to gentrification. It includes a wide range of authors and looks at gentrification in a variety of global contexts. All in all, a valuable addition to the literature.’ -- Chris Hamnett, King's College London, UK and UESTC, Chengdu, China‘The Handbook truly is a useful resource for urban scholars and students as it offers well-written entries by established urban scholars and several promising new researchers on various subjects within gentrification research. As such, it provides a wealth of knowledge on the processes and modalities of gentrification, as well as new research agendas on a variety of topics.’ -- Wouter van Gent, International Journal of Housing Policy‘This volume draws on an impressive cast of contributors and embraces a dizzying array of interrelated topics.’ -- Dennis E. Gale, Journal of Urban Affairs‘This Handbook of Gentrification Studies will be useful for graduates studying anthropology of cities, urbanism, geography, and new urban identities. There is no more complete Handbook on gentrification in the English language to date.’ -- Yves Laberge, Electronic Green Journal‘The world’s leading analyst of gentrification convenes an extraordinary team of contributors to map the evolving contours of planetary gentrification. This Handbook is your essential guide to the cosmopolitan cultures of capital that are intensifying the competitive nature of life everywhere on an urbanizing planet — from big cities to small agricultural villages, from the postindustrial consumption landscapes of the Global North to the hybrid hyper-modernities of the Global South and East.’ -- Elvin Wyly, The University of British Columbia, Canada‘The Handbook of Gentrification Studies is useful and informative. It is a good starting point for encountering the variety of debates on the topic of gentrification and its current vexations. It demonstrates clearly the need to think in flexible, cosmopolitan and comparative ways about gentrification, and consider seriously the complicated potential offered by communal resistance to gentrification.’ -- Helen Traill, LSE Review of BooksTable of ContentsCONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1. Towards a C21st Global Gentrification Studies Loretta Lees SECTION I RETHINKING GENTRIFICATION (THEORY) 2. Beyond Anglo-American Gentrification Theory Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto López-Morales 3. Beyond the Elephant of Gentrification: relational approaches to a chaotic problem Freek de Hann 4. Comparative urbanism in gentrification studies: fashion or progress? Loretta Lees SECTION II KEY/CORE CONCEPTS IN GENTRIFICATION STUDIES 5. From class to gentrification and back again Michaela Benson and Emma Jackson 6. Gentrification and Landscape Change Martin Phillips 7. Spatial capital and planetary gentrification: residential location, mobility and social inequality Patrick Rérat 8. Rent gaps Tom Slater 9. Gentrification-induced Displacement Zhao Zhang and Shenjing He SECTION III SOCIAL CLEAVAGES IN ADDITION TO CLASS 10. Non-normative sexualities and gentrification Petra Doan 11. Age, lifecourse and generation in gentrification processes Cody Hochstenbach and Willem Boterman 12. Gentrification and ethnicity Tone Huse 13. Rethinking the Gender–Gentrification Nexus Bahar Sakizlioglu SECTION IV TYPES OF GENTRIFICATION 14. Slum gentrification Eduardo Ascensão 15. New-build gentrification Mark Davidson 16. The Gentrification of Public Housing Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia 17. Tourism Gentrification Agustin Cocola-Gant 18. Retail Gentrification Phil Hubbard 19. Gentle gentrification in the exceptional city of LA? Juliet Kahne 20. New directions in urban environmental/green gentrification research Hamil Pearsall 21. Gentrification, artists and cultural economy Andy Pratt 22. Wilderness gentrification: moving ‘off-the-beaten rural tracks’ Darren Smith, Martin Phillips and Chloe Kinton SECTION V LIVING AND RESISTING GENTRIFICATION 23. Resisting gentrification Sandra Annunziata and Clara Rivas-Alonso 24. Alternatives to gentrification: exploring urban community land trusts and urban ecovillage practices Susannah Bunce 25. Immigration and gentrification Geoffrey DeVerteuil 26. Property and planning law in England: facilitating and countering gentrification Antonia Layard 27. Self renovating neighbourhoods as an alternative to gentrification or decline Jess Steele Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Analysing the causes and effects of widespread gentrification, this Advanced Introduction provides an innovative insight into the global debate instigated by this process. Examining the impact of gentrification on lower income groups and other issues, Chris Hamnett discusses research into the socio-economic causes and effects of gentrification in a variety of cities worldwide. Key features include: A detailed examination of both contemporary and historical sources Exploration of the history, geography and development of gentrification and some of its more recent forms Chapters covering a selection of central topics including urban displacement and social class change. Composed of succinct but highly informative chapters, this engaging Advanced Introduction will prove to be an essential read for urban geography, urban studies and planning students as well as scholars with a particular interest in urban sociology and social policy.Trade Review‘Like a fine Islay single malt scotch, this volume is a rewarding distillation. It is both a literature review and a compilation of his first-hand observations not only in the UK, but in the US, Canada, Australia, Europe, and China. Indeed, this volume might qualify as Professor Hamnett’s magnum opus on the subject. This volume concentrates a sweeping analysis of the gentrification literature in an accessible and readable format. Faculty, as well as students, are likely to find it a compelling desk reference, of value to neophytes as well as grizzled scholars in the social sciences, geography, urban planning, and public policy. Hamnett’s meaty reference list alone is worth the price of this valuable book.’ -- Dennis E Gale, Journal of Urban Affairs‘In this book, Chris Hamnett, a key figure in gentrification studies, offers a succinct yet sophisticated overview of this classical topic which abounds with heated debates and lasting vitality. Situating gentrification in wider urban processes, Hamnett aptly engages with the long-running debates on its causes and explanations, evolution and demographic changes, socio-spatial implications and future trends, with a historical perspective and global outlook. This book is an insightful read for anyone interested in gentrification and broader urban transformations.’ -- Shenjing He, The University of Hong Kong, China‘Chris Hamnett, a world authority on gentrification, masterfully illuminates the history and geography of gentrification research. This remarkable book is a lucid introduction to this classic topic as well as an advanced and insightful reflection on cutting-edge issues, heated debates and the future agenda.’ -- Fulong Wu, University College London, UK‘Hamnett’s book on gentrification clarifies and contextualizes a complex, long-lasting and animated debate in academia and beyond. Gentrification will most probably continue to reshape cities in favor of those who can afford its impact and against those who cannot. Is the significance and the global reach of gentrification growing and is its social imprint and spatial form changing? Robust and clear arguments make this book an essential read for urban scholars and students and for anyone interested in the social dimensions of cities.’ -- Thomas Maloutas, Emeritus Professor of Social Geography and Thematic Chartography, Harokopio University, Greece‘Chris Hamnett has long been a central figure in the development of gentrification research. Here he provides a magisterial and lucid overview of a literature that continues to address vital problems for urban scholarship and social policy. That this small book can cover so much of this territory is a tribute to Hamnett’s informed judgment of empirical trends, conceptual arguments and policy consequences.’ -- David Ley, Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada‘Building on a lifetime experience and study of gentrification, Chris Hamnett has written an authoritative and comprehensive Advanced Introduction to Gentrification. This compelling text covers the essential elements of the widening process of gentrification and related urban social class transformation debates. Both “time” and “space” variations of gentrification and changing meanings of the concept receive ample attention while theories, causes and effects are critically addressed as well. This book is essential reading for all who are involved in gentrification.’ -- Sako Musterd, University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to gentrification 2. Definitions, forms, history and geography 3. Causation, explanation and theory: capital, class, culture and the state 4. Gentrification and the changing social-class structure of cities 5. Gentrification, displacement and replacement 6. Global gentrification or category imperialism? 7. Conclusion: the future of gentrification References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Analysing the causes and effects of widespread gentrification, this Advanced Introduction provides an innovative insight into the global debate instigated by this process. Examining the impact of gentrification on lower income groups and other issues, Chris Hamnett discusses research into the socio-economic causes and effects of gentrification in a variety of cities worldwide. Key features include: A detailed examination of both contemporary and historical sources Exploration of the history, geography and development of gentrification and some of its more recent forms Chapters covering a selection of central topics including urban displacement and social class change. Composed of succinct but highly informative chapters, this engaging Advanced Introduction will prove to be an essential read for urban geography, urban studies and planning students as well as scholars with a particular interest in urban sociology and social policy.Trade Review‘Like a fine Islay single malt scotch, this volume is a rewarding distillation. It is both a literature review and a compilation of his first-hand observations not only in the UK, but in the US, Canada, Australia, Europe, and China. Indeed, this volume might qualify as Professor Hamnett’s magnum opus on the subject. This volume concentrates a sweeping analysis of the gentrification literature in an accessible and readable format. Faculty, as well as students, are likely to find it a compelling desk reference, of value to neophytes as well as grizzled scholars in the social sciences, geography, urban planning, and public policy. Hamnett’s meaty reference list alone is worth the price of this valuable book.’ -- Dennis E Gale, Journal of Urban Affairs‘In this book, Chris Hamnett, a key figure in gentrification studies, offers a succinct yet sophisticated overview of this classical topic which abounds with heated debates and lasting vitality. Situating gentrification in wider urban processes, Hamnett aptly engages with the long-running debates on its causes and explanations, evolution and demographic changes, socio-spatial implications and future trends, with a historical perspective and global outlook. This book is an insightful read for anyone interested in gentrification and broader urban transformations.’ -- Shenjing He, The University of Hong Kong, China‘Chris Hamnett, a world authority on gentrification, masterfully illuminates the history and geography of gentrification research. This remarkable book is a lucid introduction to this classic topic as well as an advanced and insightful reflection on cutting-edge issues, heated debates and the future agenda.’ -- Fulong Wu, University College London, UK‘Hamnett’s book on gentrification clarifies and contextualizes a complex, long-lasting and animated debate in academia and beyond. Gentrification will most probably continue to reshape cities in favor of those who can afford its impact and against those who cannot. Is the significance and the global reach of gentrification growing and is its social imprint and spatial form changing? Robust and clear arguments make this book an essential read for urban scholars and students and for anyone interested in the social dimensions of cities.’ -- Thomas Maloutas, Emeritus Professor of Social Geography and Thematic Chartography, Harokopio University, Greece‘Chris Hamnett has long been a central figure in the development of gentrification research. Here he provides a magisterial and lucid overview of a literature that continues to address vital problems for urban scholarship and social policy. That this small book can cover so much of this territory is a tribute to Hamnett’s informed judgment of empirical trends, conceptual arguments and policy consequences.’ -- David Ley, Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada‘Building on a lifetime experience and study of gentrification, Chris Hamnett has written an authoritative and comprehensive Advanced Introduction to Gentrification. This compelling text covers the essential elements of the widening process of gentrification and related urban social class transformation debates. Both “time” and “space” variations of gentrification and changing meanings of the concept receive ample attention while theories, causes and effects are critically addressed as well. This book is essential reading for all who are involved in gentrification.’ -- Sako Musterd, University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to gentrification 2. Definitions, forms, history and geography 3. Causation, explanation and theory: capital, class, culture and the state 4. Gentrification and the changing social-class structure of cities 5. Gentrification, displacement and replacement 6. Global gentrification or category imperialism? 7. Conclusion: the future of gentrification References Index

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Book SynopsisCompelling and engaging, this Handbook on Shrinking Cities addresses the fundamentals of shrinkage, exploring its causal factors, the ways in which planning strategies and policies are steered, and innovative solutions for revitalising shrinking cities. It analyses the multidimensional phenomena involved in processes of shrinkage, where cities experience a dramatic decline in their economic and social bases.Offering a timely response to the endurance of decline in cities across the globe, contributions from top scholars showcase a wide range of perspectives on the ongoing challenges of shrinkage. Chapters cover topics of ‘governance’, ‘greening’ and ‘right-sizing’, and ‘regrowth’, laying the relevant groundwork for the Handbook’s proposals for dealing with shrinkage in the age of COVID-19 and beyond. Leading experts in the fields of urban and regional development contribute novel ideas pertinent to the future of shrinking cities, considering factors such as economic prosperity, liveability, social stability, and innovation, ultimately representing a paradigmatic shift from growth-centred planning to the notion of ‘shrinking sustainably’.In suggesting strategies to reverse decline and generate newer, more robust development, this prescient Handbook will prove beneficial to scholars of human geography and urban planning. The wide range of case studies will also make this a vital read for planning practitioners.Trade Review‘This excellent collection includes insightful reviews of current research, recently implemented projects and policies, and analyses of emerging topics chiefly from the European experience are supplemented with examples from North America, Japan, and Mexico. This book gathers excellent studies of a range of programmes including regrowth, shrinking smart, green innovation, infrastructure, complemented with chapters on governance, social capital, and relevant social issues. Chapters on the epistemology of urban shrinkage research and current debates on terminology amplify the significance of this volume. This timely book offers an invaluable resource for researchers, policy-makers in Europe and other world regions who are seeking examples of good programmes and policies to manage urban shrinkage. It should be of interest to researchers and policy-makers interested in the practical experience of managing urban shrinkage, and those interested in theoretical debates about shrinkage, governance, and new topics that require further explorations. -- Chung-Tong Wu, University of Sydney, Australia‘Our cities represent very comprehensive social ecosystems – a mosaic consisting of diverse structures interlinked by the veins of infrastructure shaped by multiple actions of various actors. The Handbook on Shrinking Cities, edited by Karina Pallagst, Marco Bontje, Emmanuèle Cunningham Sabot and René Fleschurz presents a similar picture. This is a book in which the synergy between chapters written by numerous authors creates a multi-faceted picture of shrinking cities and which will be of interest to a wide range of readers.’ -- Maros Finka, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China and President of the AESOP‘With COVID-19 upending traditional patterns of urban living, some shrinking cities may be facing unique opportunities for revitalization and prosperity. This wonderful collection of essays from established and new scholars combines multi-disciplinary expertise to propose innovative ideas and planning strategies for shrinking cities around the world.’ -- Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, UCLA, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xiv Introduction: shrinking cities research in times of COVID-19 1 Karina Pallagst and Patricia M.I. Hammer PART I CONCEPTUALISING SHRINKING SMART 1 The language of shrinking cities: terminology and translation to describe a new urban regime 9 Emmanuèle Cunningham Sabot and Maja Ročak 2 Shrinking cities: new insights into planning cultures 26 Karina Pallagst and René Fleschurz 3 Path dependence in shrinking cities: learning from the past 40 Victoria Pinoncely 4 Shrinking smart from theory to practice: an epistemological approach to constructing a new planning concept 54 Bozhidar Ivanov 5 Place attachment and negative mindset in shrinking cities: is there a contradiction? 67 Solène Le Borgne 6 Understanding the role of social capital in regenerating shrinking cities: insights from the Netherlands 80 Maja Ročak 7 Shrinking cities as epistemic communities 94 Ivonne Audirac 8 Urban shrinkage and socio-economic segregation in medium-sized cities: the case of Gera 108 David Huntington PART II GOVERNING SHRINKING CITIES 9 Governance in shrinking cities: the role of active citizenship in emerging governance 122 Agnes Matoga 10 Urban mindware in governing post-socialist shrinking cities 134 Krzysztof Stachowiak and Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz 11 Governance challenges in shrinking cities: the example of brownfield site reuse and governance 148 Dieter Rink and Annegret Haase 12 Shrinking cities are here to stay: place-sensitive policy responses? 162 Flavio Besana and Kai Böhme 13 The legal and planning system for shrinking cities in Japan 178 Tetsuji Uemura 14 Towards brighter futures for European small and medium-sized towns: what can social innovation contribute? 193 Marco Bontje, Nicola Bacon, David Bole and Claire Gordon 15 Shrinking cities and cross-border context: the example of the twin cities of Forbach (Moselle, France) and Völklingen (Saarland, Germany) 208 Frédérique Morel-Doridat PART III GREENING/RIGHTSIZING SHRINKING CITIES 16 Adaptation of infrastructures in shrinking cities: a review 222 Fanny Augis 17 A growing field in shrinking cities: a literature review on shrinkage and urban green space 236 Olivia Lewis 18 Utilising solar energy and technology production-oriented strategies in shrinking cities 250 Simone Di Pietro 19 Urban green innovation and revitalisation of declining areas and vacant spaces in shrinking cities 264 José G. Vargas-Hernández and Patricia M.I. Hammer 20 Reflections on the challenges for public value capture in shrinking cities 278 Sílvia Sousa and Paulo Pinho 21 Carbon mitigation for shrinking cities 292 Helen Mulligan 22 Regrowth challenges of English cities in the context of flood risk: a discussion on flood resilience and regrowth in Hull, United Kingdom 308 Faeeza Mackay, Stephen Platt and Fulvio Domenico Lopane 23 Cultural branding and adaptive reuse in shrinking cities: a comparative study of Turin, Italy and Lowell, USA 324 Justin B. Hollander and Marissa G. Meaney PART IV REGROWING SHRINKING CITIES 24 Variations of urban regrowth – systematising driving factors and contextual conditions: the European perspective 338 Annegret Haase, Marco Bontje, Dieter Rink, Chris Couch, Szymon Marcińczak, Petr Rumpel and Manuel Wolff 25 Issues, diffusion and solutions of shrinkage in French heritage towns’ centres 353 Alix de La Gaignonnière 26 Pop Up City and interim uses 367 Terry Schwarz 27 Smart cities as a substitute industry revitalisation approach to shrinking cities in Germany? 381 Jakob Schackmar 28 Refugees in shrinking cities: the role of place and belonging in refugee-led revitalisation 395 Norma Schemschat 29 Old industrial cities striving to attract and retain knowledge workers: a case study from Spain 409 Simón Sánchez-Moral, Alfonso Arellano and David Moreno 30 Data, policy and segregation, open source data and catalysing inclusive culture-led economic development: contextualising smart city 422 Jasmin Aber Index

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Book SynopsisProviding an overview of urban social movements from a diverse range of empirical and theoretical perspectives, this Handbook includes not only a critical analysis of the transformations that have occurred in the urban landscape recently, but also sheds light on the strategies implemented by social actors in various socio-political and cultural contexts. It focuses on better understanding how and to what extent collective action around urban issues remains relevant in our modern world.Top international scholars introduce the main features of urban movements from countries and cities around the world, including across Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America, to highlight their diversity as well as the multiple scales through which they are employed. The Handbook first documents the concrete forms of contemporary urban movements, before highlighting new developments in the field, particularly in the face of new forms of communication, and finally examines the specificity of contemporary urban movements in the context of emerging unexpected local and global challenges.With a broad range of case studies and in-depth coverage of key issues, this Handbook is critical reading for urban studies and social movement studies scholars. The practical advice offered throughout also makes this an invigorating read for representatives of international institutions working on urban policies and development, as well as urban activists looking for a more in-depth study of the field.Trade Review‘Academic interest in urban social movements has surged around the world since the notion was first introduced in the early 1970s. This Handbook gathers novel as well as retrospective knowledge on (the outcomes of) these movements, and helps to reveal the phases, patterns, cycles and convergences shaping the plethora of struggles around the right to the city.’ -- Margit Mayer, Center for Metropolitan Studies Berlin, Germany‘This Handbook brings to the fore the structural roots of urban conflicts and identities, in creative tension with human agency. Covering an admirably broad range of cases, not restricted to the West, and recognizing the temporal dimension inherent to both urban conflicts and theories on urban dynamics, Anna Domaradzka and Pierre Hamel have edited a collection that will appeal to a broad readership across the social sciences.’ -- Mario Diani, University of Trento, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Urban Social Movements 1 Anna Domaradzka and Pierre Hamel PART I THE RIGHT TO THE CITY IN FRONT OF CAPITALIST ACCUMULATION AND STATE PLANNING 2 Beyond the localism of urban social movements 14 Pierre Hamel 3 A structural field of contention approach to urban struggles 28 Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi and Kerstin Jacobsson 4 Urban battlegrounds: strategies of action and drivers of participation in radical movements in Italy 43 Carlo Genova 5 Urban social movements and regulation theory: tenant protest in Berlin 58 Lisa Vollmer PART II FIGHTING SOCIAL INEQUALITIES, RACISM, EXCLUSION, AND POVERTY IN CITIES AROUND THE WORLD 6 Spatial segregation during ‘financial apartheid’: Reclaim the City and its struggle for housing in Cape Town, South Africa 81 Antje Daniel 7 Tenants’ movements in Europe: from working-class struggles to marginalization 97 Dominika V. Polanska 8 Anti-eviction mobilizations in Barcelona, Montreal, and New York City 114 Marcos Ancelovici and Montserrat Emperador Badimon 9 Hands up, don’t shoot: safety and the city in the twenty-first century 131 Mary Bernstein and Jordan McMillan 10 Rural–urban migration and the right to the city: urban social movements in the informal settlements of Namibia and Ghana 148 Eric Yankson and Ada Adoley Allotey PART III URBAN MOVEMENTS AND CITY LIFE IN RETROSPECT 11 Brazil’s urban social movements and urban transformations in perspective 168 Abigail Friendly 12 Squatting, a SWOT analysis 185 Hans Pruijt 13 Building real utopias: urban grassroots activism, emotions and prefigurative politics 199 Tommaso Gravante 14 Gentrification, resistance, and the reconceptualization of community through place-based social media: the future will not be Instagrammed 214 Ashleigh Weeden PART IV IN SEARCH OF URBAN CITIZENSHIP THROUGH EXPERIENCING VARIOUS MODELS OF SOLIDARITY 15 Claiming urban citizenship: rights and practices 232 Maciej Kowalewski 16 Beyond co-optation and autonomy: the experience of two Argentinean social organizations in the face of the left turn 248 Francisco Longa 17 The rise of urban resistance movements and spatialized oppression: the Gezi legacy 265 Aysegul Can PART V COLLECTIVE ACTION, URBAN POLITICS AND/ OR URBAN POLICIES 18 The everyday politics of the urban commons: ambivalent political possibilities in the dialectical, evolving and selective urban context 284 Iolanda Bianchi 19 The 2019–2020 Chilean protests: the emergence of a movement of urban memories 300 Alicia Olivari and Manuela Badilla 20 Rage against the machine: how twenty-first century political machines constitute their own opposition 315 Stephanie Ternullo and Jeffrey N. Parker 21 Neoliberal urban redevelopment and its discontents: rising urban activism in Seoul 330 Chungse Jung 22 Political engagement of urban social movements: a road to decolonization or recolonization of urban management? 343 Tomasz Sowada 23 Neoliberal urban governance and slum dweller movements: the mutual fragmentation of policies and community-based organizations in the city of Buenos Aires 363 Joaquín Andrés Benitez, María Cristina Cravino, Maximiliano Duarte and Carla Fainstein

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the particular nature, characteristics and current conditions of urbanization in China. It reviews the theory of “urbanization with a diversified process” and puts forward the basic principles for promoting urbanization on the basis of a perspective reflecting the diversified sizes of towns and cities. Further, it assesses the overall strategic planning for advancing urbanization and explores the characteristics of an urban society formed on the basis of diversified urbanization.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisTaking a critical perspective, this book rethinks public space in the context of contemporary global health and economic crises, as well as technological, political and cultural change. In order to do so, Ali Madanipour brings together two often unrelated discourses: public space and social inclusion, interrogating the potential for public spaces to contribute to inclusive social practices.Organized in two parts, the book first highlights various common meanings and philosophical concepts of public space, examining them in their constitution and application. Madanipour runs these concepts past the test of social practice, through the economic, political and cultural dimensions of social exclusion and inclusion. Chapters further analyse public space in its different forms: physical, institutional and technological, offering a wide-ranging and thought-provoking take on the concept.Timely and innovative, this book will be an invigorating read for urban studies, planning and human geography scholars, particularly those focusing on public space, social inclusion and urban processes.Trade Review‘The COVID-19 pandemic, social movements and communications technologies have reshaped the nature of public urban space and public life. In this extraordinarily erudite examination, Professor Madanipour draws together the observations of philosophers and researchers on the meaning of public space and of accessibility to it. He does so in a manner highly informative for anyone interested in civic life, present and future.’ -- Jon Lang, University of New South Wales, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Public space: the case for rethinking PART I CONCEPTS OF PUBLIC SPACE 2. Similarities and differences 3. Space: embodied, embedded, and unfolding 4. Public: totality, authority, and openness 5. Between generality, particularity, and singularity PART II PUBLIC SPACE AND SOCIAL INCLUSION 6. Public space as resource 7. Public space as power 8. Public space as experience 9. Conclusion: public space as inclusive space References Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the social implications of dense and compact cities, this enlightening book looks at micro-scale segregation through several lenses. These include the ways that the housing market constantly reconfigures social mix, how the structure of the housing stock shapes it, and the ways that policies are deployed to manage these effects. Taking a deep dive into micro-segregation in the socially mixed and dense centres of compact cities, the authors investigate the form and content of social and ethno-racial hierarchies at the micro-scale of different cities around the world and the ways these have evolved over time. Vertical Cities considers the ways the materiality of such hierarchies affects the reproduction of social inequalities in today’s large cities. Academics and researchers of urban sociology, housing, urban regeneration, urban studies and urban geography will find the original approach taken to this under-researched topic to be a vital resource. Practitioners and policy makers will find the innovative use of a common theoretical frame to analyse micro-scale social mix in vertical/compact cities informative when dealing with the management of neighbourhoods in inner cities.Trade Review‘When most people think about urban segregation they think about different residential areas of cities. But, as the contributors to this wide ranging and comprehensive volume convincingly show, urban social segregation can take many forms, both horizontal and vertical, and involve a wide range of different groups and housing types at a variety of different scales.’ -- Chris Hamnett, Emeritus Professor, King's College, London, UK‘This book has a highly original focus on micro-segregation, particularly vertical, revealing forms of housing and urban inequalities and hierarchies that are otherwise hidden in socially mixed neighborhoods. Examples from different cities worldwide show how widespread those micro-segregations are, but also how different, in form, in the way they are shaped by historical processes and market dynamics, and in the local social configurations they create.’ -- Edmond Préteceille, Sciences Po CNRS Paris, France‘Contributors document the many forms of spatial separation that structure residents’ daily lives but that are invisible to the administrative census data that urbanists usually rely on to measure segregation. Studies of cities around the world included here focus especially on differences in class or racial/ethnic composition between lower and upper floors of multistory buildings. They call into question the spatial scale of urban phenomena – neighborhoods, neighboring, and urban inequality – that are too often taken for granted in empirical research.’ -- John R. Logan, Brown University, Rhode Island, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: the cities in the city xv Prodromos Tsiavos Preface xviii 1 Introduction to Vertical Cities: urban micro-segregation, housing markets and social reproduction 1 Thomas Maloutas and Nikos Karadimitriou PART I HIERARCHIES IN NEGOTIATED SOCIAL MIX 2 Constantly evoked but under-researched: the conundrum of vertical stratification in Naples 23 Nick Dines and Cristina Mattiucci 3 Flat by flat: producing micro-scale social differentiation in an arrival neighbourhood of Marseille 39 Apolline Meyer and Thomas Pfirsch 4 Micro-housing, vertical marginalization and “normalcy”: negotiating inclusion arrangements in the interstices of residential apartment buildings in Beirut 57 Jihad Farah and Salah el-dinn Sadeck 5 Micro-segregation and coexistence in Athens: the debate on segregation and its implications for urban research 73 Ifigeneia Dimitrakou, Dimitris Balampanidis, Nikolina Myofa, Iris Polyzou, Dimitra Siatitsa, Stavros Spyrellis and Kostas Vakalopoulos 6 Measuring and mapping vertical segregation in Athens 88 Thomas Maloutas, Stavros Spyrellis and Nikos Karadimitriou PART II SPATIAL PATTERNS OF ETHNIC PROXIMITY 7 Co-location of different population categories. Micro-level segregation dynamics: the case of Amsterdam 99 Rinus Deurloo, Sako Musterd, Bart Sleutjes and Jeroen Slot 8 Social mix and vertical segregation in Madrid 116 Jesús Leal and Daniel Sorando 9 Vertical micro-segregation in a middle-sized Mediterranean city: a case study in Málaga, Spain 129 Juan José Natera-Rivas, Remedios Larrubia-Vargas and Susana Navarro-Rodríguez PART III HIERARCHICAL PROXIMITY IN SEGMENTED HOUSING MARKETS 10 Vertical segregation of rural migrants in urban China: a case study of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou 139 Sainan Lin and Zhigang Li 11 Micro-segregation in Rio de Janeiro 154 Vinicius M. Netto, Camila Carvalho, Maria Fiszon and Yasmin Couto PART IV SOCIAL MIX IN RECOMMODIFIED STATE SOCIALIST CITIES 12 Vertical separation in high-rise apartment buildings: evidence from Bucharest and Budapest under state socialism 173 Szymon Marcińczak and Daniel Baldwin Hess 13 Vertical micro-segregation in apartment buildings in Budapest 189 Zoltán Kovács, Judit Székely and Balázs Szabó 14 Patterns of small-scale residential segregation in the centre of Belgrade 204 Ivan Ratkaj, Aljoša Budović and Nikola Jocić 15 Gentrification as a micro-segregation phenomenon: social and spatial layers of Tallinn inner city 220 Kadri Leetmaa, Elina Maarja Suitso, Kadi Kalm, Ingmar Pastak and Tiit Tammaru PART V PROXIMITY IN GENTRIFIED URBAN SPACES 16 Beyond the concept of spatial segregation: analytical weakness, perverse policies, and evidence from Mexico City 240 Eftychia Bournazou 17 Compulsory social mix, micro-scale segregation and gentrification: the case of Gan HaHashmal neighbourhood, Tel Aviv 255 Tal Shamur and Haim Yacobi 18 Planning vertical differentiation? Geodesign workshop in the case study area of Neve-Sha’anan neighbourhood in Tel Aviv 272 Shlomit Flint Ashery and Rinat Steinlauf Millo PART VI HIERARCHIES IN HOUSING TOWERS 19 Micro-segregation in Seoul, the capital city of the “Republic of Apartments” 285 Yu-Min Joo 20 Wealth-based micro-segregation in Hong Kong: social distance within spatial proximity 300 Hang Kei Ho and Maurice Yip 21 Perceived pull and push forces in high-rise developing neighborhoods in Santiago, Chile 314 Ernesto López-Morales and Ignacio Arce 22 The commodification of height: vertical price differentiation in Vienna’s condominium towers 333 Walter Matznetter and Robert Musil Index

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Book SynopsisScientific practices of removing waste in mega-cities of the global South are embedded in socio-cultural belief systems which reproduce existing social hierarchies. Thus going beyond a techno-managerial approach in waste management, Sneha Sharma critically interrogates the politics around urban waste disposal in Mumbai, India. She undertakes an ethnographic journey to the city's most unwanted space, a dumping site, to reveal how spaces and people are made into waste through exclusionary formal and informal practices. Offering new insights on topics of urban marginality, informality, urban planning this book will attract scholars from sociology, urban studies, and human geography.

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Book SynopsisOutlining the rise of Philippine slums alongside the historical development of Philippine urban cinema, Slum Imaginaries and Spatial Justice in Philippine Cinema makes a novel contribution to the cinema-city nexus through its interdisciplinary framework of film studies and human geography.

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Book SynopsisTeheran-ro in Seoul and Mediaspree area in Berlin are pristine examples for public spaces with a history of rapid change in the context of broader political and economic transitions. Dahae Lee shows that in such a transitional context, the public sector alone is incapable to provide and manage public space. Hence, it engages private sector entities in the form of privately owned public space/s (POPS). By analysing the planning instruments used for POPS in both cases, their uniqueness as well as strengths and weaknesses are revealed. Based on the results this study offers a number of policy recommendations for cities that encounter similar problems.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abstract; List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Public space in transition; Research design and methodology; Challenges of providing and managing public space in a transitional context; Planning instruments for POPS in Teheran-ro, Seoul; Planning instruments for POPS in Mediaspree area, Berlin; Outcomes of planning instruments for POPS; Conclusion; Glossary; Appendix; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisEngaged Urbanism showcases the exciting ways in which urbanists are responding to this question and working towards fairer cities. Its authors offer succinct, candid and carefully illustrated commentaries on the trials and successes of risk-taking research, revealing how they collaborate across fields of expertise, inventing or adapting methods to suit bespoke situations. Featuring novel uses and combinations of practice-from activism, architectural design and undercover journalism, to film, sculpture, performance and photography- in a diversity of cities such as Beirut, Johannesburg, Kisumu, London and Rio de Janeiro, Engaged Urbanism demonstrates how some of the greatest challenges for present and future populations are being rigorously and creatively addressed.Trade Review'In putting all our sensory capacities to work, Engaged Urbanism offers evidence of the efficacy of methodological invention and demonstrates the possibilities researchers, activists, service providers, and policymakers everywhere have available to deepen their understandings of urban life and to work creatively with what is available to them. Participatory photography, art installations, data and spatial mapping, collective writing, undercover detection, longitudinal documentation, public performance, digital reconstruction, and community mobilization are all deployed to enliven our capacities to know the urban with greater rigor and enthusiasm, as well as an appreciation for the heterogeneity of conditions and "inhabitants" that surround us.' - Professor AbdouMaliq Simone, author of City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements at the Crossroads.Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction Ben Campkin & Ger Duijzings I: FRAMES 1 Cities Methodologies matter: comparative urbanism and global urban theory Jennifer Robinson 2 Methods, metaphors and the interdisciplinary terrain of urban research Matthew Gandy II: SITE-SPECIFIC COLLABORATIONS 3 Site-writing Jane Rendell with Adriana Keramida, Povilas Marozas, Mrinal Rammohan 4 Towards an architecture of engagement: researching contested urbanism and informalities Camillo Boano, Caroline Newton and Giorgio Talocci 5 ‘ Worlding’ the studio: methodological experiments and the art of being social Suzanne Hall and Juliet Davis III: PERFORMANCE AND PARTICIPATION 6 From ‘heroin’ to heroines David Roberts with Anne Louise Buckley, Briony Campbell, Chantel Forrester, Elam Forrester, Jahcheyse Forrester, Lorna Forrester, Rosie Fowler, Taina Galis, Steve Hart, Therese Henningsen, Lasse Johansson, Gillian McIver-Tanbouli, Lewis Osbourne, Eric Phillip, Adam Rosenthal, Georgia Sangster, Ruth-Marie Tunkara, Smart Urhiofe, Julie Vandemark, Julia Vandemark, Cathy Ward and Andrea Luka Zimmerman 7 Four palimpsests on the erasure of the Heygate Estate Felipe Lanuza Rilling 8 Hacking London’s demolition decisions: a new collaboration to scrutinise the technical justifications for retrofit, refurbishment and demolition Kate Crawford with Sarah Bell, Felicity Davies, Charlotte Johnson, Sunyoung Joo, Sharon Hayward and Richard Lee 9 Authoring the neighbourhood in Wikipedia Rebecca Ross and Chi Nguyen 10 ‘ The secret security guard’: being a G4S employee during the London Olympic Games Henrietta Williams 11 Hide and seek: the dubious nature of plant life in high-security spaces Max Colson IV: SITUATING IMAGES AND IMAGINARIES 12 The ups and downs of visualising contemporary Mumbai Andrew Harris 13 Creating systematic records through time: the destruction and reconstruction of heritage areas affected by earthquakes in Chile Bernadette Devilat 14 Paint. Buff. Shoot. Repeat: rephotographing graffiti in London Sabina Andron 15 Critical urban learning through participatory photography Alexandre Apsan Frediani and Laura Hirst 16 Assisted Self-Portraits and GUESTures: excerpts from a discussion on photography and participation Margareta Kern and Anthony Luvera 17 Picturing place: the agency of images in urban change Ben Campkin, Rebecca Ross and Mariana Mogilevich 18 ‘S eeing is believing’: the social life of urban decay and rebirth Wes Aelbrecht 19 ‘ We thought we were making the car but it was the other way around’: historical pathways and the ecology of the street network in industrial and post-industrial Detroit Sophia Psarra V: EMBODIED CARTOGRAPHIES 20 Lebensraum/Living Space Ger Duijzings and Rastko Novakovi? 21 Abdication and arrival: using an open-ended, collaborator-led ethnography to explore constructions of newly encountered cities Andrew Stevenson 22 Learning to walk: on curating a walking methodologies programme ThienVinh Nguyen 23 I hear sounds inside my head Joanna Rajkowska 24 Charting smellscapes M?d?lina Diaconu 25 Contra Band Leah Lovett VI: FABRIC AND FABRICATION 26 The Twin Sisters Are ‘About to’ Swap Houses: displacement and the bordering practice of matching Mohamad Hafeda 27 City shapes and urban metaphor John Aiken 28 (In)visible bodies: migrants in the city of gold Johan Thom 29 Negotiating space: the artist working as a creator and enabler of spaces for working, thinking and meeting Kieren Reed 30 Twenty-five demolished houses Mircea Nicolae 31 The bridge of sighs Henrietta Simson and Jo Volley 32 Material, Stories Hilary Powell 33 Building on fire: towards a new approach to urban memory Stamatis Zografos Notes on contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe UN's urban sustainability goal (#11) is fundamental to the global sustainable development agenda. David Simon explains the anatomy and dynamics of SDG 11, and critically assess how it is being used and understood in different local, regional and national contexts. Supported by case studies throughout, Simon considers how SDG 11 interacts with other Sustainability Development Goals and how competing indicators, other external constraints, as well as lack of political will can present tough challenges to implementation. He provides a balanced and dispassionate analysis, highlighting problems and limitations alongside positive applications. A key aspect of the unfolding story of the SDGs is how they play out in practice. Although some of the connections and complementarities were designed, others are shown to have emerged by default. Drawing on lessons learnt so far, Simon considers how realistic sustainability goals are for cities and human settlements worldwide, and asks how different will cities be by the end of the SDG's 15-year lifespan in 2030? Written for students, policy-makers and practitioners, the book provides an authoritative assessment of one of the most important and integrative SDGs.Trade ReviewIn this articulate and comprehensive account, David Simon provides a full history of the negotiations around the eleventh Sustainable Development Goal, on cities and human settlements. He traces the formal and informal processes that led to consensus and then explores the practical challenges of implementation, including the synergies and trade-offs between goal areas as they play out in urban environments the world over. Drawing upon careful procedural analysis he provides unique political insights on how negotiations are won or lost, whilst also providing practical insights, based on his own experience and comprehensive literature review, on how urban sustainability might be more robustly pursued now and in future. -- Jessica Espey, Lecturer in Global Development and Environment, University of Bristol and Senior Adviser, UNSDSNBy 2030, we will not meet most SDG 11 targets without major shifts in urban policy and investments in local government. To rescue Agenda 2030, actions need to be taken now and at scale across cities and human settlements. This book reminds us of the origins and rationale of SDG 11 and offers global perspectives on implementation and monitoring challenges, as well as deep dives into what is happening in specific cities and contexts. The book discusses the conditions for effective SDG 11 implementation and brings out clearly the interrelationships between SDG 11 and other goals. It makes a clarion call for an intensified pursuit of SDG 11 implementation and monitoring, to help the world to come closer to the sustainable development targets. -- Raf Tuts, Director, Global Solutions Division, UN-HabitatDavid Simon’s authoritative and insightful account of the formation, implementation, and early progress on SDG 11 offers the first comprehensive overview of one of the newest areas of multi-lateral action, sustainable cities and communities. He makes legible the critical domain of global urban policy. For scholars, political leaders and practitioners, the book provides an essential platform for unified action – and critical self-reflection. -- Susan Parnell, Chair in Human Geography, University of BristolTable of Contents1. Origin and context 1.1 Introduction 1.2 From the MDGs to the SDGs 1.3 The distinctive rationale for SDG 11 1.4 The process to establish SDG 11 1.5 Conclusions 2. Anatomy of SDG 11 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The logic and structure of Goal 11 2.3 Target 11.1 2.4 Target 11.2 2.5 Target 11.3 2.6 Target 11.4 2.7 Target 11.5 2.8 Target 11.6 2.9 Target 11.7 2.10 Supplementary targets 11.a–11.c 2.11 Conclusions 3. Interactions among the SDGs 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Anticipated synergies and trade-offs and guidance issued 3.3 Examples of conceptual synergies and trade-offs with SDG 11 3.4 Synergies and trade-offs as encountered and addressed during SDG implementation 3.5 Conclusions 4. Embedding and implementing SDG 11 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Global reviews of progress with implementation 4.3 Assessing government progress in co-ordinating and implementing the SDGs 4.4 Localisation of the SDGs 4.5 Voluntary Local Reviews and their assessment 4.6 Conclusions 5. Additional challenges to achieving SDG 11 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Suggested modifications and alternatives to SDG 11 5.3 Appropriate funding and costs of implementation 5.4 Conclusions 6. Synthesis and conclusions 6.1 Progress with implementation to date 6.2 Smart cities, the SDGs and sustainability 6.3 Impact of the SDGs as a whole and Goal 11 in particular 6.4 Towards 2030: prospects for achieving SDG 11

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Book SynopsisEUROPAN is an initiative supported by nine European countries, which stages a bi-annual competition for young architects, landscape and urban designers. Participants are invited to submit innovative and experimental models of urban development. The topic of the 2021 edition of the EUROPAN competition was Living Cities. 2,148 participants from all of Europe, gathered in teams, submitted 677 proposals for 40 cities. This book features the six winning proposals for the Austrian cities of Graz, Klagenfurt and Linz, presented in detail through photos, plans, and visualisations, as well as concise texts. Their focus is on architectural and urban design interventions and processes. They offer innovative concepts for the use of public space, holistic approaches to resource-saving construction, as well as cross-functional models for the use of space. The volume is a treasure trove of trend-setting ideas on the future of our cities and the development of a new urban culture.

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Book SynopsisThe increasing platformisation of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists from various fields related to critical urban studies and labour activism into dialogue. The contributors engage with the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange.

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Book SynopsisDepicting the world, territory, and geopolitical realities involves a high degree of interpretation and imagination. It is never neutral. Cartography originated in ancient times to represent the world and to enable circulation, communication, and economic exchange. Today, IT companies are a driving force in this field and change our view of the world; how we communicate, navigate, and consume globally. Questions of privacy, authorship, and economic interests are highly relevant to cartography's practices. So how to deal with such powers and what is the critical role of cartography in it? How might a bottom-up perspective (and actions) in map-making change the conception of a geopolitical space?Table of ContentsPreface; Research Interest; On the Symposium and Exhibition; Acknowledgments; Shifts in Mapping; Introduction to the essay section; Shifts in Mapping: Two Concepts which have Changed the World View; Atlas of Indexical Cities: A Personal Search Engine for the World; Reflections on the Cartographic Languages When collectively mapping possible worlds; Critical Map Visualizations; The Digital Memory of Palmyra: (How) can data images be critical?; Design through Graduation; Radical Cartography; Biographies; Introduction to the Exhibition: STRATEGIES OF NEOGEOGRAPHY IN RECENT MEDIA ART; Works/Artists in the Exhibition.

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Book SynopsisIn a neighbourhood facing massive redevelopment, racialized residents speak about stigma, social mixing, and what the island community means to them. Based on rich interviews, photographs, and archival research, Julie Chamberlain rejects the usual silence in German urban studies around racialization and examines how constructing some groups as "not belonging" has shaped Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg's past and present. For racialized long-time residents, it is Heimat, a space of belonging in the context of exclusion. As social mix policy threatens that belonging, residents explore their hopes and their fears for the future of an urban space where gentrification looms.

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Learning from Arnstein’s Ladder draws on contemporary theory, expertise, empirical analysis, and practical applications in what is now more commonly termed public engagement in planning to examine the enduring impacts of Sherry Arnstein’s work and the pervasive challenges that planners face in advancing meaningful public engagement.

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