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HYPERSCALING HOUSING: Venture Capital, Real Estate Start‐Ups and the Race to Build a Global Residential Brand

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early‐stage companies, pursuing aggressive growth and market domination. Since the 2008 financial crisis, VCs have poured huge sums into real estate start‐ups.
Tim White
wiley   +1 more source

THE LEGITIMACY TRAP: Street Vending Heterogeneity and Selective Enforcement in San Francisco

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Literature on street vending regulation often emphasizes the challenges in enforcing legal frameworks due to unclear laws or insufficient state capacity. However, it tends to overlook diversity among vendors themselves along crucial parameters such as spatial location, community ties and processes of goods procurement.
Irene Farah
wiley   +1 more source

CLAIMING SOCIAL HOUSING FUTURES: Value, Risk and the Temporal Politics of Income Strip Financing in London

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Asset managers, private equity firms and other institutional investors have assumed an increasingly important role in the ownership and management of housing and infrastructure since the Global Financial Crisis. This article analyses how social housing in London is being transformed into a financial asset through an analysis of ‘income strip ...
Aretousa Bloom, Joe Penny
wiley   +1 more source

THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
wiley   +1 more source

GOVERNING THE CLOUD: Infrastructural Statecraft and the Political Ecology of Digital Expansion in Oregon

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Oregon's wave of data center and semiconductor projects shows how cloud capitalism reorganizes resource systems and territorial governance. Examining Amazon, Google, and Intel, the article traces how fiscal incentives, utility programs, and land‐use instruments are recalibrated to secure hyperscale loads.
Justin Kollar
wiley   +1 more source

REPRODUCING OPERATIONAL LANDSCAPES: The Rock Mining for Indonesia's New Capital City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Indonesia's new capital city is designed to become a green and sustainable city. In this article, we examine the (un)sustainability of the process through which the city is coming into being. Using the sociospatial theory of planetary urbanization, we trace the dialectical relationship between the new city and sites beyond it to show how ...
Bosman Batubara, Kei Otsuki, Femke Van Noorloos, Michelle Kooy, Annelies Zoomers   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The definition of response and inadequate response to topical corticosteroid treatment in atopic dermatitis and related skin inflammatory diseases: A GA²LEN ADCARE statement paper. [PDF]

World Allergy Organ J
Zuberbier T, Abuzakouk M, Angelova Fischer I, Arruda LK, Augustin M, Beck L, Bernstein J, Bindslev-Jensen C, Bertolín-Colilla M, Bangert C, Calderón-Llosa O, Canonica GW, Roldan-Castor MA, Casis-Hao RJ, Cherrez-Ojeda I, Choo KJL, Chularojanamontri L, Cork MJ, Craig TJ, Criado PR, Custovic A, Çetinarslan T, Çalıcıoğlu F, de Bruin-Weller M, Douladiris N, Ensina LF, Erdem Öztürk Y, Ertaş R, Ferrucci SM, Rosário Filho N, Flohr C, Fluhr J, Fomina D, Gregoriou S, Gotua M, Giménez-Arnau AM, Hoetzenecker W, Jack C, Criado RFJ, Katoh N, Katoulis A, Kökçü Karadağ Şİ, Larenas-Linnemann D, Lee HY, Lima H, Mansour E, Mortz CG, Morelo Rocha Felix M, Morris V, Moschione Castro A, Mota Veloso Bruscky D, Mukhina O, Nguyen DV, Nosbaum A, Ozceker D, Özkaya E, Oztas Kara R, Parisi CAS, Peter J, Puig L, Ramon GD, Rincón-Pérez C, Sahiner UM, Schmid-Grendelmeier P, Serra-Baldrich E, Sevimli Dikicier B, Smith CH, Staubach P, Stevanovic K, Su Kucuk O, Teovska Mitrevska N, Thaci D, Torres MJ, Torres T, Trócoli Zanetti ME, Tuchinda P, Vadasz Z, Vakirlis E, Vieira Duarte G, Virtanen H, Werfel T, Wollenberg A, Worm M, Yew YW, Pereira MP.   +84 more
europepmc   +1 more source

HOUSING RETROFIT AND THE JUST TRANSITION IN THE METROPOLIS: Governance, Redistribution, and Inequality in London and Barcelona

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Metropolises are rapidly becoming spaces of stark inequalities. While much literature has emphasized the metropolitan scale as a driver of agglomeration economies, recent scholarship highlights either the ungovernable nature of large metropolises or the weak redistributive capacity of their governments as key causes of increasingly unequal ...
Lucía Cerrada Morato, Marc Martí‐Costa, Cecilia Conde López   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drug use vs. abstinence after incarceration: associations with competing psychosocial needs and their relevance to the importance of treatment. [PDF]

Health Justice
Paquette C, Krajewski T, Cullins Z, JadKarim L, Danns T, Cloud DH, Brinkley-Rubinstein L.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Capital and the Family

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
wiley   +1 more source