Prof. Loretta Lees: Gentrification is Global, Revising the Definition and Borders of Gentrification скачать в хорошем качестве

Prof. Loretta Lees: Gentrification is Global, Revising the Definition and Borders of Gentrification

Professor Loretta Lees is the current Faculty Director of the Initiative on Cities at Boston University and is an urban geographer and urbanist who is internationally known for her research on gentrification and urban regeneration. Emiliya Akhundova and Anna Jonczyk interview Professor Lees on her books “Gentrification” - the first textbook on gentrification- and “Planetary Gentrification”. In this interview, Professor Lees discusses how the term “gentrification” has been overburdened and that there are new, more specific terms that may better describe the changes occurring across various locations: classical, rural, new-build, and super-gentrification. We also cover how gentrification needs to be thought of more broadly and globally, as it is not exclusively a North-American phenomenon. For example, the Southwark Archive group from London fights gentrification by speaking out regarding accessibility of information, exposes language surrounding the topics, and discussing how new-built properties are forms of gentrification. Later, Professor Lees outlines her take on the positives and negatives of gentrification, ownership versus renting of land, heritage as an organically changing process, slum gentrification, green gentrification, and public housing projects, such as Heygate state.