This introduction to the special issue introduces the contributors' articles and identifies key
themes relating to how increased transnational mobility has affected urbanisation processes …

Transnational gentrification is class-based neighbourhood change driven by relatively
affluent international migrants. In contrast to the conventional globalisation narrative in …

Transnational gentrifications have been occurring at the crossroads of capital investment
fuelled to satisfy the remarkable increase of so-called leisure-oriented mobilities. Such …

In a context of global-scale inequalities and increased middle-class transnational mobility,
this paper explores how the arrival of Western European and North American migrants in …

Some concepts travel worldwide, although they remain unobtrusively attached to the
contexts in which they were produced and, therefore, are insufficiently abstract and general …

Drawing upon the case of Panama's Casco Antiguo, this paper establishes the theoretical
concept of 'transnational gentrification': a process of neighbourhood change both enabled …

In this paper we are critical of the fact that the gentrification literature has moved away from
discussions about the reclaiming of locational advantage as a marker of gentrifiers' social …

Increased international tourism in large European cities has been a growing social and
political issue over the last few years. As the number of urban tourists has rapidly grown …

This special issue, a collection of papers presented and debated at an Urban Studies
Foundation-funded workshop on Global Gentrification in London in 2012, attempts to …

This paper explores the extent to which tourism is a form of gentrification that displaces
residents from their place. Residential displacement driven by this process of 'tourism …