THE NEW FRONTIERS OF GENTRIFICATION IN CRITICAL URBAN THEORY

Authors

  • Luís Filipe Gonçalves Mendes Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território da Universidade de Lisboa - IGOT

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36661/2448-1092.2015v12n20.11961

Keywords:

Gentrification, Critical Urban Theory, Social production of space, Frontier

Abstract

From a trialetic meaning that the term "frontier" lends to the study of gentrification, the discussion that we bring around on this process will be structured in two main parts. The first aims to make a conceptual mapping of gentrification and how this process has evolved in urban studies from the 60s in the light of the main explanatory hypotheses that shape it. The second seeks to map the boundaries and major challenges facing the process of investigation: its controversial relationship with the public policies of urban renewal; its contribution for the misconceptions of social and residential mix; the institutional goodness masks that urban regeneration and the creative city thesis account for the production of the city as growth machine; territorial, pluriescalar and glocal expansion of gentrification as an ideological strategy to serve a global, neoliberal and revanchist urbanism.

Author Biography

  • Luís Filipe Gonçalves Mendes, Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território da Universidade de Lisboa - IGOT

    Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território da Universidade de Lisboa

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Published

06-01-2021

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 20 (2015): Leituras sobre a cidade

Section

Articles

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How to Cite

MENDES, Luís Filipe Gonçalves. THE NEW FRONTIERS OF GENTRIFICATION IN CRITICAL URBAN THEORY. Cidades, Brasil, v. 12, n. 20, 2021. DOI: 10.36661/2448-1092.2015v12n20.11961. Disponível em: https://periodicos.uffs.edu.br/index.php/cidades/article/view/11961. Acesso em: 7 dec. 2025.