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Luz, a once-elegant 19th-century neighbourhood in downtown São Paulo, is prime real estate. But redevelopment means clearing out a homeless encampment known as “Crackland”.
When wealth accumulation becomes the driver of urban regeneration, residents who already have little or no say in the future of our cities are further marginalised by gentrification.
As fire tore through Grenfell Tower, I witnessed the complete and terrible destruction of 120 homes just like the one I grew up in.
A new study shows what growing local inequality in American cities looks like and asks what that means for people who live in them.
Like many cities, Manchester can demonstrate strength through diversity, but must face down the forces that would see it divided.
Maboneng in Johannesburg represents one strand of the type of urban “development” that’s advocated for by the proponents of “global cities”.
Must the aggressive, homogeneous global pattern of development take its course in Melbourne’s long-standing multicultural suburb of Footscray?
Smart cities are usually optimised like a business for speed and efficiency. Placemaking can slow down cities to improve health and wellbeing and promote more democratic engagement of citizens.
Grassroots venues are run on tight margins, and have been under pressure for some time from external factors such as rising costs and gentrification.
The Melbourne suburb of Richmond is prime inner-city real estate, but the community is paying a price for redevelopment that jars with the existing neighbourhood.
Who’ll profit from the value uplift arising from the huge investment of taxpayers’ funds in creating better-serviced, higher-density suburbs? And what will the changes mean for existing residents?
On the same day that London’s legendary Fabric closed permanently, Berlin’s infamous techno club Berghain was granted a tax break.
Looking back on the legacy of London 2012, it’s clear the local artistic community has lost out.
Social media is notoriously unsuitable for population studies, but these researchers have found a way to make the bias work in their favour.
The NSW government agenda would deny the ‘right to the city’, that network of diverse communities, practices and places which give rise to the convivial and inclusive potential of cities.
Is Berlin’s underground scene in danger of going to the wall?
In a competitive rental market, landlords can easily skirt anti-discrimination laws.
Unless Cameron learns a lesson from history, the tenants of Britain’s council estates will face displacement and gentrification by stealth.
Rather than being microcosms of the community, schools are increasingly divided by class and ethnicity.
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Urban Geography and Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Human Geography, Royal Holloway University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, The University of Melbourne
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Macquarie University Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University
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Research Associate, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Geography, University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer in Urbanism, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in City Planning, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, University of Canberra
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Postgraduate Associate at the Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of City Planning and Transport, Curtin University
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PhD Candidate, School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, and Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Cultural Economy, University of South Australia
