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 …

The internet of landlords: Digital platforms and new mechanisms of rentier capitalism

J Sadowski - Antipode, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

The global urban housing affordability crisis

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 …

Housing (in) equity and the spatial dynamics of homeownership in France: a research agenda

R Le Goix, L Casanova Enault… - … en sociale geografie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper advances a research agenda on how asset‐based welfare policies, residential
market volatility, stratified accumulation and vulnerability impinge upon the geography of …

Constructing a new asset class: Property-led financial accumulation after the crisis

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 …

Centring housing in political economy

MB Aalbers, B Christophers - Housing, theory and society, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

'Mortgaged lives': the biopolitics of debt and housing financialisation

M García‐Lamarca, M Kaika - Transactions of the institute of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Citizenship, justice, and the right to the smart city

R Kitchin, P Cardullo, C Di Feliciantonio - The right to the smart city, 2019 - emerald.com
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 …

Urban planning and degrowth: a missing dialogue

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 …

Tracing the links between infrastructure‐led development, urban transformation, and inequality in China's belt and road initiative

E Apostolopoulou - Antipode, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …