Rethinking displacement in peri-urban transformation in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mi Shih
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Industrial Land ◽  
The Past ◽  
Spatial Understanding ◽  
Industrial Land Use ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

This article examines the spatiality of peri-urban villages in Guangzhou, offering an analysis that critically rethinks displacement as a phenomenon that need not be bracketed by the narrow spatial understanding of “physical uprootedness.” Building on ethnographic fieldwork research in Yonghe village, this article identifies and examines three mechanisms and forms of marginalization and dispossession that Chinese villagers have experienced during in situ urbanization: (1) large-scale expropriation of farmland to economic development zones in the mid-1980s; (2) subjection of collective assets to industrial land use by the planning authority since 1991; (3) on-going exposure to industrial pollution. The analysis shows that each of these factors is contingent on the previous one, and that villagers’ engagement with recent injustices cannot be separated from their disadvantaged positions in the past. This article argues that, while overt displacement by state-led development is a clear violation of the “right to the city,” in situ marginalization and dispossession without physical uprooting is equally problematic and exploitative.

scholarly journals Romani People and the ‘Right to the City’: Gentrification in Fevzipasa, Canakkale, Turkey

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
Recep Volkan Öner ◽  
A. Aslı Şimşek
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Canakkale city centre has been home for many different ethnicities from the past to our present day. In time, the city centre was also defined as a protected area due to its historical and cultural value. However, major infrastructure, urban renewal, and transformation projects have emerged in the agendas of both public authorities and the private sector. Similar to the rest of the world, in Turkey, Romani people are amongst the first groups to face the discriminating and excluding effects of such projects. This study aims to explore the relationship between gentrification and the violation of Romani people’s ‘right to the city’ with a focus on the Romani neighbourhood of Fevzipasa, Canakkale. 

Heritage in Context

2020 ◽  
pp. 670-689
Author(s):  
Nasser Rabbat
Keyword(s):  
Right To The City ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
European Colonialism ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
Historic Cities

The meaning and scope of heritage are far from settled in the contemporary Middle East, as both history and geography are being contested, reclaimed, and reconfigured. Inspired by European models yet fueled by resistance to European colonialism, heritage preservation prompted a protracted contest between traditionalism and modernism in the past century. What began as an antiquarian interest in preserving historic monuments evolved into a more holistic understanding of the import of the built heritage in recent decades. Yet the historic cities still suffer from chronic problems of poverty, overcrowding, and neglect, as well as new problems resulting from manipulated planning and real estate capitalism, which accelerated the erosion of the civic qualities that were slowly acquired over the past two centuries. To rescue these old cities, a new conceptualizing of heritage is needed that builds on the thinking that has evolved in the last decade on the right to the city.

scholarly journals City, Urban Transformation and the Right to the City

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Senem Zeybekoglu Sadri ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Residential experiences in times of shifting housing regimes in Istanbul

2020 ◽  
pp. 167-190
Author(s):  
Zeynep Enlil ◽  
İclal Dinçer
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Real Estate Development ◽  
Housing Rights ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

This chapter examines changing housing regimes in Istanbul. It analyses two forms of self-building that emerged as solutions improvised by people in response to the pressing housing need and became predominant modes of housing production since the 1950s, namely “gecekondu,” and “yap-sat” or “build-and-sell.” Although stimulated by governments for some decades, both of these self-regulated housing forms came to a point of expulsion under the new regime of capital accumulation based on aggressive real-estate development that has been adopted as part of neoliberal urban policies in Turkey since the 2000s. The frenzy for urban transformation accompanied by financialization of housing led to further commodification of housing and urban space, undermining the right to decent and affordable housing and quality urban space for every citizen, which gave rise to considerable dissent that culminated in the emergence of new urban movements in defence of housing rights and ‘right to the city.’

Desire or Displacement? Working-Class Notions of Urban Belonging in Late-Nineteenth-Century Germany

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1193-1211
Author(s):  
Philipp Reick
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

The displacement of working-class residents from center to periphery constitutes a crucial element of late-nineteenth-century urbanization. Yet urban historiography has paid little attention to how this process was perceived by those most directly affected. Analyzing primary source material from late-nineteenth-century Germany, this article argues that working-class urbanites opposed suburbanization not only because of their jobs or to remain close to places of entertainment and leisure. Rather, the nascent working-class movement also criticized suburbanization because they feared it jeopardized opportunities for political participation and collective action. Against this backdrop, I argue that contemporary discussions around the “Right to the City” differ considerably from earlier rhetoric. In particular, I show that working-class communities suffering from displacement in present-day cities are deprived of some of the most influential framings of the past. The paper, thus, illustrates how interdisciplinary perspectives open new avenues for critical research on notions of urban belonging.

Marketing the “Tropical Playground”

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-68
Author(s):  
Tom Cairns Clery
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Miami’s marketers have a long and successful history of creating and recreating imagery that draws visitors towards the ‘magic city’ or the ‘tropical playground.’ This paper investigates Miami’s marketing from an historical perspective by examining the role and legacy of various discourses emanating from powerful city actors over the past century. Spatial analysis including spatial autocorrelation and Local Moran’s I are conducted to investigate further Miami’s geographical segregation. The findings suggest that unequal, segregating and exclusive discourses have become so normalized within Miami’s marketing and political structure that change is becoming increasingly difficult as attitudes institutionalize further. Using a discourse analysis set around a framework of social exclusion and adverse incorporation, and semi-structured interviews, this paper also examines the current spatial formation of the city with insights from leading figures in Miami’s marketing industry to suggest that the right to the city is still a distant dream for Miami’s other neighborhoods and populations.

Post January Revolution Cairo: Urban Wars and the Reshaping of Public Space

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 163-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Abaza
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Art Scene ◽  
The Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Military ◽  
The City

The metropolis of Cairo has witnessed unprecedented transformations since the January revolution of 2011. It witnessed evidently an escalation of war zones and confrontations between protesters and police forces; it also witnessed the militarization and policing of the urban sphere, the creation of segregating buffer walls that paralysed entire areas. However, the Tahrir effect remains evident in that it revolutionized the very notion of what a public space is about. It succeeded in imposing an entirely unprecedented novel choreography for the city in which the ‘stage’ of Tahrir was the exemplary moment that triggered extended and replicated dramaturgical violent public confrontations, public performances and occupations in all the squares of Egypt. This article traces the transformations in relation to the debates pertaining to the ‘right to the city’ relating to the expanding visibility of the street vendors. Despite the military taking over after the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, Cairo has witnessed for the past three years a mesmerizing flourishing art scene.

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