Geographers have started studying residential (housing) and commercial real estate
(offices, retail, leisure) at the intersection of financial and urban geographies to understand …

Housing financialization, or the increased dominance of financial markets in the housing
sector, has not stopped in the wake of the crisis. Rather, it has reinforced and rescaled itself …

Through detailed empirical analysis of a central area of Lisbon, this paper explores whether
short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb channel investment in residential real estate and …

Comparative research on income inequality has produced several frameworks to study the
institutional determinants of income stratification. In contrast, no such framework and much …

Gentrification caused by tourism is increasingly affecting places around the world. Although
some scholars have noted that tourism threatens the right to 'stay put of existing populations …

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

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 …

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 …

There is a growing body of literature on China's land reform, land system and land-centred
urbanisation. While the contribution of land proceeds to Chinese local public finance and …

The private rental sector (PRS) is making a surprising comeback. A central argument in our
paper is that we see the rise of PRS and the associated stagnation of homeownership as …