The Political Economy of Land (eBook, PDF)

Rent, Financialization and Resistance
Redaktion: Hyötyläinen, Mika; Beauregard, Robert

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together a collection of original investigations of the current thinking on three broad themes: the assetization of land and buildings, the relationship of land rent to valuation and speculation in the markets for private and public properties, and the different ways in which land functions as a social relation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000788471
• Artikelnr.: 65985231

Autorenporträt

Mika Hyötyläinen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University. His research concerns urban inequality, housing precarity, Nordic land and housing policies, and transformations in public real estate policy. He received his doctorate in 2019 from the University of Helsinki. He has published in journals such as Acme, Critical Social Policy, Geoforum, and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Robert Beauregard is a Professor Emeritus at Columbia University where he taught in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. His most recent, authored books are Cities in the Urban Age: A Dissent (Chicago, 2018), Planning Matter: Acting with Things (Chicago, 2015), and Advanced Introduction to Planning Theory (Edward Elgar, 2020). He also co-edited Regulation and Planning (Routledge, 2021) and Planning for a Material World (Routledge, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Political Economy of Land
Part I: The Assetization of Land and Buildings
1. Land as a Financial Asset: The Theory of Urban Rent as a Mirror of
Economic Transformation
2. Land as an Asset
3. Buildings as Financial Assets
Part II: Rent, Real Estate, and Property Markets
4. The Risk Myth: Blackstone, Housing and Rentier Capitalism
5. The Political Economy of Abandoned Property: Structure and Agency in
Land Banking Practice in Muncie, Indiana
6. The Political Economy of Italian Public Real Estate Privatization:
Austerity, Financialization and the "Enrichment Economy"
7. The Singapore and Hong Kong Property Markets: Lessons for the West from
Successful Global Cities
Part III: Land and Social Relations
8. Land Relations in Turmoil: Trans-Local Constructions of Home Among Rural
Migrants to Xiamen, China
9. Bridging Between Owners and Users in Japan's Private Property Regime:
The Case of Farmland Banking
10. Unauthorized Neighborhoods, Land Rent, and Working-Class Struggles in
Indian Cities: The Slum Question Revisited
11. Public Land as a Social Relation: The Case of East River Park in New
York City
12. Land Rent and the Struggle for the Urban Commons in Helsinki's
Suvilahti DIY Skatepark
Conclusion: A Summary from the Perspective of Rent Theory