Shaking Up the City critically examines many of the concepts and categories within mainstream urban studies that serve dubious policy agendas. Through a combination of theory and empirical evidence, Tom Slater “shakes up” mainstream urban studies in a concise and pointed fashion by turning on its head much of the prevailing wisdom in the field. To this end, he explores the themes of data-driven innovation, urban resilience, gentrification, displacement and rent control, neighborho...

This first textbook on the topic of gentrification is written for upper-level undergraduates in geography, sociology, and planning. The gentrification of urban areas has accelerated across the globe to become a central engine of urban development, and it is a topic that has attracted a great deal of interest in both academia and the popular press. Gentrification presents major theoretical ideas and concepts with case studies, and summaries of the ideas in the book as well as offer...

Würdest du töten, um ewig zu leben?Der Archäologe Dr. George Pierce macht in der peruanischen Wüste eine phänomenale Entdeckung: Unter einem Felsen findet er den Kopf der sagenhaften Hydra – der Sumpfschlange aus der griechischen Mythologie. Das unglaubliche: Ihre DNS soll der Schlüssel zur Unsterblichkeit sein. Als Pierce kurz nach seiner bahnbrechenden Entdeckung spurlos verschwindet, schlägt die Welt Alarm. Special Forces Kommandant Jack Sigler und sein Elite-Te...

The first-ever definitive guide to Australia's best holiday accommodation for chickens.This book is a must read for everyone who ever ate an egg ... a book that you can start anywhere you like ... and find yourself drawnto turn to the next page, and then the next ... until you find yourself going back to the start to look again. Bruce Johnson, in the Foreword

Gentrification is a global process that the United Nations now sees as a human rights issue. This new Planetary Gentrification Reader follows on from the editors’ 2010 volume, The Gentrification Reader,and provides a more longitudinal (backward and forward in time) and broader (turning away from Anglo-/Euro-American hegemony) sense of developments in gentrification studies over time and space, drawing on key readings that reflect the development of cutting-edge debates.

In Mexico City, as in many other large cities worldwide, contemporary modes of urban governance have overwhelmingly benefited affluent populations and widened social inequalities. Disinvestment from social housing and rent-seeking developments by real estate companies and land speculators have resulted in the displacement of low-income populations to the urban periphery. Public social spaces have been eliminated to make way for luxury apartments and business interests. Low-income neighbour...

Four years after the 3.11 disaster in Japan, this acclaimed collection of ethnographies in English on the Japanese communities affected by the giant Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters continues to be the only one of its kind. With a new preface offering an update on the affected communities, this volume brings together studies by experienced researchers of Japan from field sites around the disaster zone. The contributors present the survivors’ struggles in their own words: fr...