Financial geography II: Financial geographies of housing and real estate

MB Aalbers - Progress in human geography, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Geographers have started studying residential (housing) and commercial real estate
(offices, retail, leisure) at the intersection of financial and urban geographies to understand …

[HTML][HTML] Resource efficiency in industrialized housing construction–A systematic review of current performance and future opportunities

F Kedir, DM Hall - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Improved resource efficiency in the construction industry is needed to balance sustainability
requirements with growing demand for new infrastructure. Resource efficiency includes the …

The variegated financialization of housing

MB Aalbers - International journal of urban and regional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
There is a small but growing literature on the financialization of housing that demonstrates
how housing is a central aspect of financialization. Despite the varied analyses of the …

Financialization and housing: Between globalization and varieties of capitalism

R Fernandez, MB Aalbers - Competition & change, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
In the literature, one finds various explanations for the rise of financialized capitalism. In the
different strands of financialization literature, housing either plays a minor role or is simply …

Introduction to the forum: From third to fifth‐wave gentrification

MB Aalbers - Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 'The Changing State of Gentrification'(2001) by Jason Hackworth and the late Neil
Smith is one of the most influential papers ever published in TESG. By introducing three …

'Freelance isn't free.'Co-working as a critical urban practice to cope with informality in creative labour markets

J Merkel - Urban Studies, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
For more than a decade, co-working spaces have proliferated in cities worldwide. The paper
discusses co-working as a critical urban practice because these spaces give support to the …

A fresh look at contemporary perspectives on urban housing affordability

MEA Haffner, K Hulse - International Journal of Urban Sciences, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The literature on housing affordability has grown rapidly since Hulchanski [1995, p. 489. The
concept of housing affordability: six contemporary uses of the housing expenditure-to …

The revival of private landlords in Britain's post-homeownership society

R Ronald, J Kadi - New Political Economy, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Homeownership has been declining in favour of private renting in most developed English
speaking countries since the early-2000s. Public debates in countries like Britain, Australia …

Elite capture and urban geography: Analyzing geographies of privilege

J Lauermann, K Mallak - Progress in Human Geography, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Many cities have a two-tiered system for governing land: one set of rules for most people,
and a different set for elite investors, large developers, and others who can bend …

The alternative financialization of the German housing market

G Wijburg, MB Aalbers - Housing studies, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
While many European countries experienced a global housing boom in the early/mid-2000s,
house prices and mortgage debt in Germany stagnated. Therefore, the German housing …