COMPARATIVE URBANISM 'Comparative Urbanism fully transforms the scope and purpose
of urban studies today, distilling innovative conceptual and methodological tools. The …

Rental housing accommodates more than a billion tenants worldwide, and in recent years,
rentership has been increasing in some countries. Given reduced access to homeownership …

Creating Chinese Urbanism describes the landscape of urbanisation in China, revealing the
profound impacts of marketisation on Chinese society and the consequential governance …

How urban financialization is achieved across different government levels receives limited
attention. This study addresses the gap by examining the deployment of China's local …

Social housing policy in Ireland has evolved over several decades into a significantly
marketized tenure which relies on, supports and expands the private housing market. In this …

Over the past decades, institutional landlords–from real estate companies like the German
giant Vonovia to private equity companies like Blackstone, or pension funds like ABP, the …

This article sheds light on the investment-driven construction sector in Vienna and provides
a critique of the Austrian rental investment product Vorsorgewohnung (VSW), a tax-saving …

The world-wide financial turn in land and urban development is now leading to financialised
urban development, reflecting the rising influence of financial sector actors over the built …

This study examines the dynamics of university towns by focusing on the role of universities
in China's (sub) urbanisation. Based on statistical data, the spatial expansion of universities …

There has not been a lot of focus on housing financialization literature in Indonesia, except
for Lee (1996). This article focuses on the financialization of housing in Indonesia in the past …