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

In this paper, we develop a novel interpretation of the internal relationship between value,
rent and finance, thereby enabling a new reading of the process of financialisation. As we …

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

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 …

In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2007–09, political economists have typically
identified and interrogated speculative logics and credit-debt relations as the markers of …

This report discusses the financialization of urban governance and the built environment as
an explicit state strategy, focusing on municipal finance and the use of financial products by …

Topologies of Power amounts to a radical departure in the way that power and space have
been understood. It calls into question the very idea that power is simply extended across a …

Actors and institutions in localities and regions across the world are seeking prosperity and
well-being amidst tumultuous and disruptive shifts and transitions generated by: an …

This entry explains the rising popularity of the concept of financialization, despite it being
considered a vague and chaotic concept. It also summarizes the wide‐ranging …

A distinctive feature of urban spaces lies in their high infrastructural density. Because
buildings, roads, stadiums, airports are all capital-intensive, they rely in turn on financial …