Space, Urban Conflict, and the Future of Urban Society: A Comparative View

For many years now, anthropologists and urban scholars alike have identified ‘gentrification’ as a process of class conflict in which poorer people get pushed to the margins of urban life in the name of ‘urban renewal'. Using examples from Thailand, China, Greece, and Italy, Professor Michael Herzfeld argues that these short-sighted policies are creating an increasingly disenfranchised and resentful under-class.