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 …

Financing urban development, three business models: Johannesburg, Shanghai and London

J Robinson, P Harrison, J Shen, F Wu - Progress in Planning, 2021 - Elsevier
There has been growing interest in the expansion of global investment in urban areas, and
the financialisation of urban development, both of which bring new business logics into the …

Land financialisation and the financing of urban development in China

F Wu - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Financial geography III: The financialization of the city

MB Aalbers - Progress in Human Geography, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Demolishing the present to sell off the future? The emergence of 'financialized municipal entrepreneurialism'in London

J Beswick, J Penny - … Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This article introduces a new mode of urban entrepreneurialism in London through a study
of the state‐executed, speculative development and financialization of public land. In …

Capitalizing on the State: The political economy of real estate investment trusts and the 'resolution'of the crisis

R Waldron - Geoforum, 2018 - Elsevier
A burgeoning literature demonstrates how the inter-dependent relationship between the
financial and real estate sectors has intensified boom-bust dynamics within urban property …

Neoliberalisation from the ground up: Insurgent capital, regional struggle, and the assetisation of land

C Ward, E Swyngedouw - Antipode, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper we argue that “assetisation” has been a central axis through which both
neoliberalisation and financialisation have encroached in the post‐Fordist era. We focus on …

Urban struggles with financialization

D Fields - Geography Compass, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The 2008 financial crisis and its impacts on the urban landscape contributed to a
proliferation of research on the financialization of urban space, particularly of housing …

The long shadow of the state: Financializing the Chinese city

F Wu - Urban Geography, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Despite controversy over the meaning of financialization, there are two major dimensions to
understanding whether the city is financialized. This paper explores these dimensions in …

Strategies for a new municipalism: Public–common partnerships against the new enclosures

B Russell, K Milburn, K Heron - Urban Studies, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This article considers the potential of public–common partnerships (PCPs) to act as a new
municipalist intervention against the privatisation and financialisation of land in the UK. In …