The geography of gentrification

This paper revisits the ‘geography of gentrification’ thinking through the literature on comparative urbanism. I argue that given the ‘mega-gentrification’ affecting many cities in the Global South gentrification researchers need to adopt a postcolonial approach taking on board critiques around developmentalism, categorization and universalism. In addition they need to draw on recent work on the mobilities and assemblages of urban policies/policy-making in order to explore if, and how, gentrification has travelled from the Global North to the Global South.

# Urban Planning and Governance # Social Sciences # Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism # Economics, Econometrics and Finance # Urban Development and Societal Issues

Loretta Lees (2011). "The geography of gentrification". Progress in Human Geography. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132511412998