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CAPITALIZING CRISIS: Urban Extractivism in Athens Amidst Neoliberal Restructurings

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we examine the post‐2009 transformation of Athens through the analytical lens of urban extractivism. We argue that the Greek sovereign debt crisis did not operate as a temporary disruption, but as a durable political condition that enabled the institutionalization of extractive urban governance.
Konstantinos Zafeiris, Chryssanthi Petropoulou, Mara Zacharaki   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the planning process behind Kitoko City in the Democratic Republic of Congo—a new city project officially launched in 2019 but never implemented—this article examines the political, social, and spatial effects generated by urban initiatives that remain at the stage of intention. It investigates how such unbuilt projects
Patrick Belinga Ondoua
wiley   +1 more source

ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley   +1 more source

The Barracks City’s Health

Проект Байкал, 2019
The article tells about Stalin’s housing reforms in the USSR in the late 1920s and early 1930s and their results. The case studies of Magnitogorsk and Stalinsk (Kuznetsk) show the formation of the structure of new urban settlements.
Dmitry Khmelnitsky
doaj   +2 more sources

Apartment Houses, Toledo, Ohio [approximately 1985]

, 2004
The former Amegol Manor on 2532 Cherry Street. This building was demolished in the Summer of 1985. Terms associated with the photograph are: Amegol Manor (Toledo, Ohio) | Apartment houses | 2532 Cherry Street (Toledo, Ohio) | dwellings - Ohio - Toledo |
Haudan, Russ
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TRANSNATIONAL GENTRIFICATION IN NISEKO, JAPAN: A Model of Displacement Led by Linked Migration

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Transnational gentrification scholarship has provided insights into how transnational migration reshapes urban areas, yet its analytical lens has rarely extended to peripheral rural contexts outside Euro‐American settings, where distinct actors and mechanisms may emerge.
Ni Yan, Keisuke Sakamoto, Shizhen Huang, David Matarrita‐Cascante, Noriko Akita, Song Han, Zhengxu Zhou, Takahiro Yamazaki, Makoto Yokohari   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

WORKING THE GREY AREA: Street‑Level Refugee Housing Governance in Sweden

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how refugee housing provision under the Swedish dispersal programme produces uneven pathways to housing stability. Although residence‐permit‐holding refugees assigned to the municipalities are granted the right to housing, there are no stipulations regarding housing type, quality, or duration, resulting in significant ...
Nicolina Ewards Öberg
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Portfolio Implications of Apartment Investing [PDF]

In this article, we examine the portfolio implications of apartment investing. In particular, we explore the sector’s relative stability, liquidity, and current market outlook.
Philip Conner, Youguo Liang, Randy I. Anderson, Richard McLemore   +3 more
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54 PUBLIC UTILITIES MODELLING THROUGH 3D PROGRAM IN APARTMENT HOUSES

, 2020
With the progression of IT (information technologies) more things become quickly, easily and qualitative reachable for society. If an institution who superintends an apartment house could offer specific service for people that helps people get ...
Raimonda Liepina
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