This article will revisit Smith's seminal argument that gentrification is a global urban strategy.
The article pays attention to the role of the state and displacement during the process of …

Chinese cities have experienced large-scale urban demolition and renewal. An extensive
body of literature describes urban demolition and displacement through the dynamics of …

From the years 2004 to 2008, Beijing and Shanghai witnessed the construction of an
extraordinary number of new buildings, many of which were designed by architectural firms …

Since the last quarter of the twentieth century, cities in the Global South have seen
extraordinary growth, with China and India as the epicenters of urbanization. This essay …

This article examines the transferability of the concept of gentrification away from its A nglo‐
A merican heartland to the cities of A sia Pacific and specifically H ong K ong. An …

Gentrification has now unfolded at a planetary scale and has broken down the center-
periphery structuring of urban and rural areas. In the context of new-type urbanization and …

This article examines the changing housing rights regimes amidst the urban renewal
currently underway in Shanghai and Mumbai. We examine the policies and regulations that …

As in the early twentieth century, Shanghai has again become a site for Western settlement.
This paper focuses on case studies of long-term Western settlers* those in the city more than …

Culture permeates even the most imposing industrial building. Driven by global city making,
city leaders see culture as a key to bolstering a new economy and to dealing with decayed …

Creating Chinese Urbanism describes the landscape of urbanisation in China, revealing the
profound impacts of marketisation on Chinese society and the consequential governance …