O objetivo geral deste estudo é de apresentar uma proposta de interpretação da urbanização moçambicana contemporânea, que se manifesta cada vez mais como dual na paisagem. De um lado, apresentando áreas urbanizadas, o núcleo de desenvolvimento vertical, planificada, com infraestruturas e serviços; por outro lado, a periferia, de desenvolvimento horizontal, na sua maioria não planificada, de construção precária e com escassas infraestruturas e serviços urbanos. Para tal, o estudo buscou identificar e caracterizar as diferentes etapas da formação socioespacial moçambicana. Recorreu à Geografia Histórica Urbana como ferramenta analítica para o tratamento do material empírico colhido a partir de diversas fontes. O trabalho é composto por dois eixos de análise: o período colonial e o pós-colonial. No período colonial, buscou-se compreender os fatores responsáveis pela urbanização moçambicana dos quais somos herdeiros. No segundo, procurou-se apreender a dinâmica urbana produzida no período pós-colonial. Ainda, neste eixo, buscou-se captar as continuidades e descontinuidades do processo, identificando alguns arranjos que se promovem ao longo do tempo e suas múltiplas determinações, que acentuam cada vez mais a segregação urbana entre o núcleo e a periferia, organizando não apenas a dualidade urbana, mas exprimindo novas formas de segregação urbana a gentrificação. / The objective of this study is to present a proposal for interpretation of contemporary mozambican urbanization, which manifests itself more and more as dual in the landscape. On the one hand, with urban areas, the center of vertical development, planned with infrastructure and services; on the other hand, the periphery of a horizontal development, mostly unplanned, poorly construction and with little urban infrastructure and services. To this end, the study sought to identify and characterize the different stages of formation the Mozambican sociospatial. Historical Geography Urban resorted to as an analytical tool for the treatment of empirical data collected from various sources. The work consists of two angles: the colonial and post-colonial. In the colonial period, we sought to understand the factors responsible for the Mozambican urbanization of which we are heirs. In the second, he tried to apprehend the urban dynamics produced in post-colonial period. Still, this axis, we sought to capture the continuities and discontinuities of the process by identifying some arrangements that promote over time and its multiple determinations that accentuate increasingly urban segregation between the center and the periphery, organizing not only the Urban duality, but expressing new forms of urban segregation - gentrification.

The following thesis addresses the process of growing old in an urban environment. It concentrates on the factors, which infulence the quality of senior citizens' lives and how they do it. The main focus is put on the city disticts that are subject to dynamic changes caused by the processes of post-socialist transformations, revitalization and gentrification. The thesis explores the problems but also the benefits, which these changes can bring to elderly citizens' every day lives. Looking for the answers to these questions is based on the case study of a city district in Prague - Karlín. The qualitative research have been done by semistructured interviews with local senior citizens. It has shown possible perception of some aspects of environment of Karlin and changes of this environment.

Urban development is an ongoing process in Stockholm with renewal projects emerging in the suburbs of the city. Hallonbergen, north west of Stockholm city, is no exception and is also the neighborhood concerned in this essay. The purpose of the thesis is to examine two aspects of urban renewal and to analyze place-making as strategy for current urban renewal. The research strategy applied is a qualitative method and specific strategies utilized is qualitative interview and content analysis, in addition to literature sources such as earlier research in the form of scientific articles and books, official documents deriving from public authorities, news articles and internet sources. The result shows that urban renewal can be seen as a reason for segregation and hence a contributor to urban injustices as it causes a gentrification process leading to inequality for inhabitants, but also as a solution for segregation if a change in focus areas were to adapt, and thus, possibly, counteract the negative consequences of segregation and urban injustices. By way of conclusion, suggested improvement of urban renewal development combines regional development planning, a policy focused to involve a greater emphasis on retention and raised awareness of the risks associated with place-making.

In recent years, efforts to transform food environments have played a key role in urban revitalization strategies. On one hand, concerns over urban food deserts have spurred efforts to attract supermarkets to places where access to healthy food is difficult for lower income residents. On the other, the creation of new spaces of consumption, such as trendy restaurants and food retail, has helped cities rebrand low-income communities as cultural destinations of leisure and tourism. In cities around the US, these processes often overlap, converting poorer neighborhoods into places more desirable for the middle-class. My dissertation research examines the social and historical forces that have given rise to these twin processes in Miami’s poorest neighborhood, Overtown, a historically Black community on the cusp of rapidly encroaching gentrification. My project incorporates a mix of methods from urban geography, anthropology, and the emerging geohumanities, including geospatial mapping, historical analysis, participatory observation, and in-depth interviews. In triangulating these methods, I first unearth Overtown’s vibrant food environment during Jim Crow segregation and then trace its decline through urban renewal, expressway construction, and public divestment, focusing particularly on the dismantling of Black food businesses. I also investigate the spatial politics of recent urban agriculture projects and community redevelopment practices, the latter of which aim to remake Overtown as a cultural dining and entertainment district in the image of its former heydays. This research is theoretically informed by and contributes to work on urban foodscapes, urban geographies of race, and African American foodways. Based on my empirical findings, I argue that redevelopment practices in Overtown are undermining networks of social and economic interdependency in the existing foodscape, effectively reproducing the spatial and racial urbicide once delivered by more overt forms of racism. By linking place-based racial histories to the production of inequitable urban food systems, this research reveals the underlying geographies of struggle and dispossession that have shaped the production of both food deserts and gentrifying foodie districts.

Magister Artium - MA / Bo-Kaap (BK) is a neighbourhood in Cape Town which has long been home to a predominantly Muslim community with deep ties to the area’s colonial and slave history. In recent years, BK has become a hotbed for developers investing in property in Cape Town. Due to its sought-after location (close to Cape Town’s CBD), a flurry of interest in property development has ushered in an important turn in BK’s history and has begun changing the landscape of the neighbourhood. Important for this study is how BK residents grapple with the influx of rapid gentrification whilst trying to maintain their ‘Malay’ heritage. Historically, BK was known as a ‘Malay Quarter’ and had a distinctive ‘Malay’ identity1 constructed under apartheid legislation. It is this identity and concomitant Malay heritage which is of particular interest in this study. Under the continued threat of wholesale gentrification and arguably a loss of the rich history of early Muslims of the Cape this study hopes to investigate how community members who self-identify as ‘Malay’ signal their legitimacy to the area when discussing the fast pace of gentrification in the area. Notably, variations of BK’s Malay heritage have been documented over time. These works nonetheless point to the complex relationship between the documented/historicized construction of Malay heritage and the lived experience of having a Malay identity. Casting aside the notion of any homogenous Malay identity, this study opts to explore the manner in which a Malay identity is claimed and constructed discursively as legitimate discourse strategies against gentrification. This study adopts an ethnographic approach to studying narratives of Malay heritage in BK obtained through purposive sampling. A Discourse Analysis of narratives of heritage in BK is undertaken to draw attention to the discursive strategies employed by self-identified ‘Malay’ community members in the area. / 2023-12-01

Activists contesting urban neoliberalism are traveling to participate in struggles beyond their place of residence. They are sharing, teaching and advising activists from other struggles. They are also promoters of specific imaginaries and strategies of contestation. I refer to this phenomenon as translocal urban activism, a type of brokerage that aims to draw global connections among local political movements and a global activist network. By the analysis of the translocal practices against gentrification of the Spanish art collective Left Hand Rotation in Latin America, I direct the discussion to identify the mechanisms whereby translocal urban activism shapes the geography of urban movements against gentrification, and to examine how translocal urban activism contributes to the reproduction of and resistance against neoliberal ideas, values, and practices. I argue that power geometries within translocal urban activists, tend to nurture the global activist network with dominant imaginaries and practices, eclipsing other alternatives.

What do people talk about when they talk about climate change? This dissertation sets out to answer this question by focusing on local understandings of climate change and the policy priorities that result from them in Miami. Through a historical study that spans from the 1920s to today and 88 hourlong interviews, I demonstrate that climate change is a historically contingent, contested, and localized concept defined by power relationships. Through a historical investigation of the narratives that connect environmental policies with segregation and efforts to displace Miami’s Black residents over more than 80 years, I show how historic understandings of race and the environment inform debates about what climate change means and what to do about it today. This investigation shows how Miami’s current response to climate change has been shaped by its history as a colonial city built on the maximization of land value and exclusionary planning and policies. I find that dominant understandings of climate change in Miami have been rooted in concern for the effects of sea level rise on property prices, directing policy money toward shoreline areas while continuing to encourage a building boom that is accelerating gentrification. This set of responses is not haphazard. As my research shows, it represents a continuation of local and international patterns of exploitation. In recent years, however, a coalition of activist groups mounted an unprecedented campaign to force the city to include social and environmental justice concerns in its policy agenda. This coalition mobilized Miami’s history of environmentally-justified urban removal as a key counternarrative to policies that have historically ignored the problems of low-income areas, especially in Miami’s historically Black neighborhoods, to demand a coordinated response to environmental and social vulnerability.

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The former post-industrial city of Malmö implemented neoliberal strategies to turn the curve to become a knowledge city with a continental and cultural vibe. Drastic changes have been made in economics, sustainability, and design, to become an attractive city with opportunities in employment and education. In the pace of change, culture has come to play a central role in the process. Former centrally located industrial areas have become a nave of innovation of culture. With industries, businesses, and cultural creatives next to each other. In the hot spot of Malmö is the street of Norra Grängesbergsgatan. The industrial past and the influx of young creatives have changed the narrative of the area. According to Malmö city, there is potential to become a cultural cluster with its post-industrial environment containing works and industries. Malmö city has started to invest in the renewal of the area. The change aims to make the area a cultural destination. The industrial environment, the mixture of people, and the culture is an exciting combination that can be advantageous to the city of Malmö in the meaning to be a creative city. Such decisions can bring some concerns to mind for those who already have a livelihood in Norra Grängesbergsgatan. As in a society, people in this area have an everyday life with daily practices and established communities and networks with connections to the place. To understand the possible impacts of the processes this study aims to understand the existing livelihood. To carry out this research, I have a qualitative approach, where I have used semi-structured interviews with exploratory questions to capture an abundant outmost description of the environment and the spatial practices. Focus is on the community that shapes the street rather than the street itself, to investigate insights from people that are possible game-changers, owing to visionary documents from the city of Malmö. To capture individuals' perceptions of Norra Grängesbergsgatan is to capture hidden aspects and experiences to examine what makes these communities or spaces meaningful. The relationship between people, concerning change is in focus as the study reveals multiple processes of development happening at the same time.

Under the banner of the ‘sharing economy’, private short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb have witnessed tremendous success, facilitating millions of overnight stays in everyday homes. And while the issue has garnered considerable attention from both popular media and policy makers in cities such as New York, Amsterdam, London and Berlin, little attention has been paid to the topic in Stockholm, Sweden as well as academic literature. With this absence of discussion serving as a point of departure, I analyze both primary and secondary data pertaining to the rise of Airbnb in Stockholm. With a theoretical lens based in critical poststructuralist thought, I argue that Airbnb is embedded within neoliberal urbanism, fueling the social and economic forces behind gentrification. In order to address the problematic implications of Airbnb and similar platforms, I suggest policymakers and applicable actors to review the current taxing scheme, consider temporal restrictions, align short-term rental laws with subletting laws and communicate clearly.