TOM SLATER ON RENT GAP AND RENT CONTROL:COMMENTARY AND INTERVIEW

Abstract

In the first week of July 2019, Lisbon was privileged with the visit of Professor Tom Slater (University of Edinburgh) invited by Finisterra – The Portuguese Journal of Geography and the Centre of Geographical Studies of the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon (CEG/IGOT- -UL) (fig.1). Tom Slater is a world reference in the field of critical urban studies and gentrification who honoured us with the lecture The Revolutionary Imperative of the Rent Gap Theory of Gentrification. Slater insisted on the need to recover the concept of rent gap and apply it in the geographic analysis of the city with the purpose of better understanding and combating socio-spatial injustices, segregation, and territorial fragmentation.