Academic Year: 2014/2015
Course: Urban Regeneration and gentrification: Iberian and Latin American Cities (2nd
semester)
Coordinator: Isabel André e Jorge Malheiros
Teaching Staff: Agustin Cócola, Isabel André, Jorge Malheiros
ECTS: 6
Weekly Hours: 2,5 Typology: Seminário
Contents
Session 0: Introduction to the structure, contents and evaluation methods of the curricular unit
Session 1: The post-industrial city as a starting point
• Urban regeneration and production of space.
• Cities as spaces of consumption.
• Neoliberalism and competition between cities.
Session 2 and 3: Introduction to the study of gentrification
• The origin of gentrification in the Anglo-Saxon world.
• Phases of gentrification and theoretical debates about its evolution.
• Effects of gentrification: winners and losers?
Session 4: Gentrification and residential mobility.
• Contemporary forms of gentrification.
• Introduction to the debate on residential relocation.
• How to measure gentrification and determine its social consequences.
Session 5: Gentrification in Latin America
• Debates about gentrification outside of the Anglo-Saxon context.
• Introduction to the study of gentrification in Latin America.
Session 6: Tourism and gentrification. The case of Barcelona
• The evolution of the "Barcelona model".
• Tourism as gentrifying agent.
• Resistance as a way of life: neighbors in a thematic park.
Session 7: Immigration and gentrification. The case of Lisbon
• Urban Regeneration in Lisbon.
• The concept of "marginal gentrification".
• Immigration, a barrier to gentrification?
Session 8, 9 and 10: Workshop "Gentrification and neoliberalism in Latin America”
Invited professor 1. Michael Janoschka
“Politics and geographies of gentrification and displacement revisited through the Latin
American lens”
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Gentrification and neoliberalism in Latin America
Rio de Janeiro, Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires as case studies
Invited professor 2. Peter Mackie
• Peddling and gentrification in Latin America
• Punitive Urbanism and public space
• Quito and Cuzco as case studies
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Invited professor 3. Ibán Díaz Parra
“El regreso a la ciudad consolidada. Una narrativa de la gentrificación del Mediterráneo
a América Latina”
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Historical centres and gentrification
Case Studies: Sevilla, México DF, Buenos Aires and Montevideo
Sessions 11 and 12: Presentations of the students' essays
Session 13: Review and assessment of the curricular unit
Objectives and skills
Goals
- Introduction to the study of urban regeneration as a strategy to produce of spaces of
consumption in the post-industrial city.
- Analyse gentrification as a result of urban regeneration and a mean of capital
accumulation.
- To study the particularities of gentrification in Latin America and establish the
differences in relation to the Anglo-Saxon and Iberian processes.
- To establish a theoretical framework for future research in this domain.
Skills
- Mastering the concepts and processes of urban regeneration and gentrification and be able to
interpret them and to apply them in different contexts.
- Develop a critical reading of the processes of urban gentrification and its effects.
- Acquire ability to select and interpret information for the analysis of the processes of urban
gentrification;
- Develop the capacity of active reading of texts and critical thinking in the context of Urban
Geography.
References
Betancur, J. 2014. Gentrification in Latin America: Overview and Critical Analysis. Urban
Studies Research, Vol. 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/986961.
Bromley, R. and Mackie, P. 2009. Displacement and the new spaces for informal trade in the
Latin American city centre. Urban studies 46(7), pp. 1485–1506.
Casgrain, A. y Janoschka, M. 2013. Gentrificación y resistencia en las ciudades
Latinoamericanas. El ejemplo de Santiago de Chile. Andamios, vol. 10, n° 22, pp. 19-44.
Cócola Gant, A (en prensa). Gentrificación, turismo y lucha de clases. El caso de Barcelona. En
Salgueño, O. y Rodríguez, J. (Eds.). Ciudad y Capitalismo en España. Barcelona. Virus.
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Davidson, M. and Lees, L. 2010. New-build gentrification: its histories, trajectories, and critical
geographies. Population, Space and Place 16(5), pp. 395–411.
Díaz Parra, I. 2012. Desplazamiento, acoso inmobiliario y espacio gentrificable en el caso de
Sevilla. Encrucijadas. Revista Critica de Ciencias Sociales. Vol. 1(2) pp. 48-68.
García Pérez, E. 2014. Urbanismo inmobiliario, una década de carencia habitacional en
Buenos Aires (2001-2011). En Desafíos metropolitanos. Un diálogo entre Europa y América
Latina, Juan José Michelini (ed.), pp. 146-168. Madrid: Catarata.
Harvey, D. 1978. The urban process under capitalism: a framework for analysis. International
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Harvey, D. 1989. From managerialism to entrepreneurialism: the transformation in urban
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Hidalgo, R. y Janoschka M. (ed) (2014). La ciudad neoliberal. Gentrificación y exclusión en
Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, Ciudad de Mexico y Madrid. Madrid: UAM.
Janoschka, M. et al. 2014. Gentrification in Spain and Latin America—a Critical Dialogue.
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Malheiros, J. Carvalho, R. Mendes, L. 2012. Etnicização residencial e nobilitação urbana
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Lees, L. 2008. Gentrification and social mixing: towards an inclusive urban renaissance? Urban
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Lees, L., Slater, T. and Wyly, E. 2008. Gentrification. London and New York: Routledge.
Newman, K. and Wyly, E.K. 2006. The right to stay put, revisited: gentrification and resistance
to displacement in New York City. Urban studies 43(1), pp. 23–57.
Slater, T. 2006. The eviction of critical perspectives from gentrification research. International
journal of urban and regional research 30(4), pp. 737–757.
Smith, N. 1982. Gentrification and uneven development. Economic Geography 58(2), pp. 139–
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Zukin, S. 1998. Urban lifestyles: diversity and standardisation in spaces of consumption. Urban
studies 35(5-6), pp. 825–839.
Knowledge evaluation methods and their partial grades
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An Essay with 5 000 words and its presentation in class (80%);
Participation, presence and contribution to the course debates (20%).
Note: The Essay may assume one of the following forms: i) the analysis of a theoretical topic; ii)
the review of an author’s work; iii) the development of an empirical case-study.
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