Articles Creating Space For Citizenship: The Liminal Politics of Undocumented Activism (Thomas Swerts) A Socio-Technical Perspective To The Right To The City: Regularizing Electricity Access in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas (Francesca Pilo') Food Deserts and Real-Estate-Led Social Policy (Laura Wolf-Powers) Is This What The Democratic City Looks Like? Local Democracy, Housing Rights and Homeownership in the Portuguese Context (Ana Drago) When Social Infrastructure Deficits Create Displacement Pressures: Inner City Schools and the Suburbanization of Families in Melbourne (Megan Nethercote) Interventions Preface to an Interventions Forum on Contextual Urban Theory and The 'Appeal' of Gentrification (Carolyn Cartier) Contextual Urban Theory and the 'Appeal' of Gentrification: Lost in Transposition? (Carolyn Cartier) Beneath the Appearance of Gentrification: Probing Local Complexities (Tai-Lok Lui) Beyond Gentrification: Hegemonic Redevelopment in Hong Kong (Wing-Shing Tang) Institutionalization of 'The Property Mind' (Anne Haila) Gentrifying China's Urbanization? Why Culture and Capital Aren't Enough (Luigi Tomba) Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Gentrification: The Erasure of Alternative Idioms of Displacement Resulting from Anglo-American Academic Hegemony (Alan Smart and Josephine Smart) Book Reviews Rebecca Neaera Abers and Margaret E. Keck 2013: Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics. New York: Oxford University Press Lisa Björkman 2015: Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press (Ross Beveridge) Rivke Jaffe 2016: Concrete Jungles: Urban Pollution and the Politics of Difference in the Caribbean. New York: Oxford University Press (Colin Clarke) Chiara Tornaghi and Sabine Knierbein 2014: Public Space and Relational Perspectives: New Challenges for Architecture and Planning. London: Routledge (Sophie Watson) Faranak Miraftab 2016: Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives and Local Placemaking. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (Clara Irazábal) Brian J. McCabe 2016: No Place Like Home: Wealth, Community and the Politics of Homeownership.
New York: Oxford University Press (Rowan Arundel) Eduardo Marques (ed.) 2016: São Paulo in the Twenty-First Century: Spaces, Heterogeneities, Inequalities. New York and London: Routledge (Alvaro Luis dos Santos Pereira) Kristin V. Monroe 2016: The Insecure City: Space, Power, and Mobility in Beirut. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (Mona Fawaz) Erik Harms 2016: Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon. Berkeley: University of California Press (Jamie Gillen).