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Book review: Planetary Gentrification

Geographica Helvetica, 2017, Vol.72 (4), p.417-419 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    Book review: Planetary Gentrification
  • Author: Mermet, Anne-Cecile
  • Subjects: Case studies ; Gentrification ; Suburban areas ; Theory ; Transnationalism ; Urban studies
  • Is Part Of: Geographica Helvetica, 2017, Vol.72 (4), p.417-419
  • Description: Here, the authors are taking the opposing view of the debate, by defending the soundness of the inputs provided by the gentrification theory to give an account of the contemporary socio-spatial restructuring of non-Western cities. Through an international literature review on gentrification in cities just as various as Prague, Seoul or Santiago, the authors demonstrate that the main economic drivers of gentrification (creative destruction of the built environment, urban entrepreneurialism, urban projects enhancing the “spatial capital” of certain locations to attract upper-income social groups, post-crisis contexts providing significant reinvestment opportunities) remain powerful explanatory tools to give an account of dispossession processes in Global South cities. Chapter 4 (Class, Capital, State) focuses on the “consumption side” of global gentrification, by questioning the relevance of the notion of “global middle class” which would fuel a global gentrifying demand, as the considerable growth of middle class in emerging countries would suggest. The authors therefore conclude that the diversity of middle classes across the globe makes it impossible to group them in a consistent “global middle class” category, and that, whatever it be, “planetary gentrification is produced less by global gentrifiers […] and more by (trans)national developers, financial capital and transnational institutions” (p. 110).
  • Publisher: Gottingen: Copernicus GmbH
  • Language: English;French;German;Italian
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2194-8798
    ISSN: 0016-7312
    EISSN: 2194-8798
    DOI: 10.5194/gh-72-417-2017
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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