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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
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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 +2 more
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African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2020 Both land expropriation and eviction constitute a threat to the properties and life of local communities. In Southern Cameroon, the phenomenon has increased with the implementation of structural projects to ensure the emergence of Cameroon by 2035 and ...
Fabrice Mopi Touoyem +1 more
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An economy-wide impact assessment of agriculture land reform in South Africa
Cogent Social Sciences, 2022 South Africa has been battling with getting land reform right since the advent of democratic rule in 1994 The need to expedite land reform in the country has given rise to a number of radical approaches, including the topic and controversial ...
Thulasizwe Mkhabela +2 more
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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 +8 more
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, 2014 In China, land is reallocated on either a full-scale or a partial basis. By employing a unique farm survey that deliberately draws a distinction between full-scale and partial land reallocations, and by decomposing their respective expropriation risk ...
Bai, Ying, Kung, James, Zhao, Yang
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Expropriation of rights to land [PDF]
, 2022 Expropriation of rights to land Abstract This diploma thesis deals with the legal institute of expropriation. As defined in the Act No. 184/2006 Sb., Expropriation Act, expropriation is forced withdrawal or restriction of ownership to land (or structure)
Meitner, Luděk
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Insights on Expropriation as a Driver for Economic Development in South Africa
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial SciencesContext and Background: The land reform program in South Africa is one of the most outstanding outcomes that emerged after promulgation of the democratic government of the post-apartheid regime.
Albert Mutanga +2 more
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Town and Regional Planning, 2019 Land reform in South Africa has paid less attention to the creation of fair and viable postapartheid urban human settlements than it has to rural land reform.
Mark Oranje , Jeannie van Wyk
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CONTESTED METABOLIC NODES: Shareholding Cooperatives and Planetary Ruralization in China
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract China's recent shareholding cooperative (SC) reform heralds a shift from expropriation‐led rural change to a post‐expropriation regime in which the countryside is reconstituted through circulation, capitalization, and new forms of collective governance. Existing interpretations, whether framed as market‐driven de‐collectivization, state‐led re‐
Yong Zhang
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