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Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto Lpez-Morales

Georgia Alexandri

Eduardo Ascenso

Surajit Chakravarty and Abdellatif Qamhaieh

Jake Cummings

Sapana Doshi

Mohamed Elshahed

Amiram Gonen

Seong-Kyu Ha

Arif Hasan

Hilda Herzer, Mara Mercedes Di Virgilio and Mara Carla Rodrguez

Liling Huang

Tolga Islam and Bahar Sak zl oglu

Gareth Jones

Marieke Krijnen and Christiaan De Beukelaer

Chinwe Nwanna

Julie Ren

Elke Schlack and Neil Turnbull

Jorge Sequera and Michael Janoschka

Yannick Sudermann

Annika Teppo and Marianne Millstein

Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto Lpez-Morales

Eric Clark

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Loretta Lees is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Leicester. She is an international expert on gentrification, urban regeneration, urban policy, urban public space and urban community. She has co-authored and co-edited a number of books on gentrification: Global gentrifications and comparative urbanisms (Polity, forthcoming, with Shin and Lpez-Morales), Gentrification (Routledge, 2008), The gentrification reader (Routledge, 2010), Mixed communities: gentrification by stealth? (Policy Press/University of Chicago Press, 2011). She has recently published An Anti-Gentrification Toolkit for Council Tenants in London (2014) with The London Tenants Federation, Just Space and Southwark Notes Archive Group.

Hyun Bang Shin is Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His main research interests lie in the critical analysis of the political economic dynamics of urban (re-)development. He has written widely on Asian urbanisation, speculative urbanisation, the politics of displacement and urban spectacles. He is currently working on a number of book projects including (with Lees and Lpez-Morales) Global gentrifications and comparative urbanisms (Polity, forthcoming), Making China urban , and a co-edited volume Contesting urban space in East Asia .

Ernesto Lpez-Morales is an Associate Professor in Urban Planning in the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Chile. He is principal researcher in the CONTESTED CITIES international network, where he focuses on gentrification, neoliberal urbanism and housing in Chile and Ibero-American cities. He has recently authored an ebook: Urbanismo proempresarial y destruccin creativa (Redalyc, 2013), co-authored Chile Urbano hacia el Siglo XXI (Editorial Universitaria, 2013), and is about to publish (with Lees and Shin) Global gentrifications and comparative urbanisms (Polity, forthcoming). He is the author of several articles on gentrification and neoliberalism.

Georgia Alexandri is a researcher at the National Social Research Centre in Greece. She holds a bachelors degree in Economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business, a Master of Science in Sustainability and Planning, with distinction, from Cardiff University and a PhD from Harokopio University. Her research interests focus on gentrification, Athens, southern Europe, crisis, social and spatial justice, social movements and fear of the other.

Eduardo Ascenso is a researcher at Centro de Estudos Geogrficos, University of Lisbon (CEG-UL). An anthropologist and urban geographer, his research interests are in urban theory, the geographies of architecture, housing, migration and post-colonialism, with a special focus on the informal city in Portuguese-speaking countries. His current research combines an ethnographic look at the architects of the informal city, that is, slum dwellers, with an analysis of the socio-technological and policy milieu that underpins urban informality. His publications include the article Following engineers and architects through slums in Anlise Social (2013) vol 206, no xlviii, pp 2182-999, awarded the Bengt Turner Award 2012 for best European paper by the European Network for Housing Research.

Surajit Chakravarty is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at ALHOSN University in Abu Dhabi. He has a PhD from the University of Southern California and his research focuses on community planning, primarily affordable housing, civic engagement and planning in multicultural societies. Surajit is also interested in the processes of urbanisation in developing countries.

Eric Clark is Professor of Geography at Lund University in Sweden. He has researched the political economy of space in terms of land rent, gentrification and accumulation by dispossession, especially in the Swedish context. He is currently working on two large research programmes with Lund University Centre of Excellence for the Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability

Jake Cummings holds a Master in Urban Planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Science in civil and environmental engineering from Cornell University. His studies in urban planning have focused on the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, examined through the lenses of housing policy, neighbourhood and community development, and social innovation. He is an ongoing collaborator with Catalytic Communities, a social enterprise in Rio de Janeiro dedicated to the empowerment of informal settlements and their residents.

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