We won't move

Shannon Walsh

City, 2013, vol. 17, issue 3, 400-408

Abstract: What happens when the Right to the City is understood as the right to reoccupy the inner city by middle-class suburbanites? In the self-styled Maboneng Precinct in Johannesburg, the writing is on the wall, literally. Graffiti reading, 'We won't move' on the roof of Revolution House begins to tell the story of hipster-styled urban gentrification in the city. These processes force a radical reinvention of the meaning of the right to the city, of centrality and of accumulation by dispossession.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.795330

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