Digital platforms are a nearly ubiquitous form of intermediary and infrastructure in society. By positioning platforms in the geographical political economy/ecology literature, this paper …
S Wetzstein - Urban studies, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This critical commentary confronts and explores the–so far under-recognised and under- researched–emergent global crisis of urban housing affordability and affordable housing …
This paper advances a research agenda on how asset‐based welfare policies, residential market volatility, stratified accumulation and vulnerability impinge upon the geography of …
D Fields - Economic Geography, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
abstract This article is concerned with new modes of property-led financial accumulation emerging in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Focusing on the United States, the article …
The issue of “housing” has generally not been granted an important role in post-war political economy. Housing-as-policy has been the preserve of social policy analysis and of a …
The paper expands the conceptual framework within which we examine mortgage debt by reconceptualising mortgages as a biotechnology: a technology of power over life that forges …
This chapter provides an introduction to the smart city and engages with its idea and ideals from a critical social science perspective. After setting out in brief the emergence of smart …
J Xue - Local Environment, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The paper aims at discussing the reciprocity of developing a dialogue between urban planning and degrowth by arguing for two interactive processes:'spatialising degrowth'and …
In this paper, I explore the links between infrastructure‐led development, urban transformation and inequality in China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). I theorise the BRI as a …