Gentrification is a global and highly controversial issue. This article develops an account of what can be troubling, specifically, about state support for gentrification processes. Recent research points to the fact that processes are being used by policy-makers in many parts world as tools urban ‘renewal’ or transformation. However, it claimed this often at cost badly off residents these area...

Problem, research strategy, and findings In the 1990s, some cities across United States invested significantly in expanding light rail transit (LRT) systems. As a result, transit-oriented development (TOD) near new stations became desirable planning goal for local governments lucrative to developers. this study we examined evidence of gentrification all LRT station areas before after opening th...

A number of urban U.S. cities that were traditionally Black and underinvested are now becoming enclaves to whites upper-middle-class people. Consequently, a growing body research on schools gentrification is emerging. While most this has focused the shifts neighborhoods undergo due gentrification, we know less about how school leaders make meaning these impacts. This study draws interviews with...

This article addresses the two processes of market making and transnationalization in Havana through lens gentrification theory. Using a case study situated between Global South East, this looks more closely at transnational families migrants as agents Havana, analysing how they create exploit rent-gap. Returning to central ideas ‘highest best use’ ‘circulations’ N. Smith's rent-gap theory, I a...