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THE TRANSCALAR POLITICS AND SPATIAL IMPLICATIONS OF INVESTMENTS IN SHOPPING MALLS IN AFRICAN CITIES: A Study of Accra's West Hills Mall, Ghana

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract A surge in the number of shopping malls across many African cities reflects capital's responses to the continent's growing middle class and deepening neoliberal globalization. This article develops an analysis of the transcalar nature of these urban investments using the case of the West Hills Mall (WHM) in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (
Rosina Sheburah Essien, George Owusu, Kofi Kekeli Amedzro, Musah Aziba Issah, Jennifer Robinson, John Spyropoulos   +5 more
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Emergence of amenity migration in the area of "Bohemian Canada" Natural Park, Czech Republic.

, 2011
The work deals with amenity migration in a natural park "Bohemian Canada". Amenity migration is one of the current global phenomena. Amenity migration is a specific type of migration which is not motivated by economic prosperity of the target area. It is
HAVLÍKOVÁ, Gabriela
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ACCOUNTING FOR BIODIVERSITY: Periphery Urbanization, Environmental Conflict, and Spatial Inequality in Monetizing the Value of Nature

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In terms of mainstream sustainability economics, market‐led initiatives aimed at biodiversity restoration represent a productive, morally conscientious choice. Under this view, efforts in areas such as biodiversity offsetting, net gain, or finance are considered effective tools for preventing or managing environmental degradation.
Ihnji Jon
wiley   +1 more source

Nonprofit Housing in Rural British Columbia: Needs, Opportunities, and Barriers

Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research
Community housing is central to addressing Canada’s housing affordability crisis. In rural areas, nonprofit organizations play a lead role in the provision of community housing.
Erika Čížek, Damian Collins
doaj   +1 more source

Regional Socioeconomic Changes Affecting Rural Area Livelihoods and Atlantic Forest Transitions

Land, 2018
Centuries of colonization of the Atlantic Forest biome in Brazil have led its native vegetation cover to be reduced to only 11.7%. On the other hand, regional land changes have fostered natural forest regeneration, since the 1960s, in the region of Para ...
Ramon F. B. da Silva, Mateus Batistella, Emilio F. Moran   +2 more
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Identifying productivity and amenity effects in interurban wage differentials [PDF]

This study focuses on the relative importance of amenity and productivity differences in determining wage differentials across urban areas. The approach developed takes advantage of the connection between land and labor market clearing conditions ...
Randall W. Eberts, Patricia E. Beeson
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EMIGRE CITY‐MAKING: The Micropolitics of Diasporic Real Estate Investment and Urban Growth in Pakistan

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Contemporary cities in the global South are being reshaped through the intersecting logics of burgeoning real estate sectors and diasporic investment. This article examines the case of Pakistan to explore how emigration trajectories and remittance practices contribute to the transformation of urban landscapes in countries of origin through ...
Fatima Tassadiq
wiley   +1 more source

Implicit amenity prices and the location of retirees in England and Wales

, 2009
General equilibrium models in which compensation for local amenities occurs in both housing and labour markets have been widely used to generate implicit amenity prices and regional quality of life indices.
Lee, J., Stewart, Geoff, Stewart, G.
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Graduated Involution Under Compressed Modernity: Differences in the Summer Holidays as a Phase in the Public Life‐Course in Shanghai, China

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper develops the concept of graduated involution to explain how summer holidays have been reconstituted from leisure time into an educational arena for Chinese families under conditions of compressed modernity. Based on qualitative data from 32 households in Shanghai, including interviews and child self‐recordings, we analyze how ...
Leiping Bao, Rachel Murphy
wiley   +1 more source

A hybrid Tiebout model with vintage housing

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how spatial variation in housing ages affects income segregation in US cities. We develop a dynamic general equilibrium hybrid Tiebout model with durable housing that combines local public finance and urban land use theories.
Kuzey Yilmaz, Muharrem Yesilirmak
wiley   +1 more source