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CHINESE UNIVERSITIES AS URBAN DEVELOPERS: The Tale of Two Innovation Complexes in Nanjing, China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Chinese universities are important but undertheorized players in the production of urban built environments. Most work focuses on purpose‐built university towns, neglecting the redevelopment of underutilized downtown campuses. Therefore, this article considers how two publicly funded universities in Nanjing attempted to establish ‘innovation ...
Hao Chen, Yunpeng Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Renewable Electricity in German Multi-Family Buildings: Unlocking the Photovoltaic Potential for Small-Scale Landlord-to-Tenant Power Supply

open access: yesEnergies
The implementation of photovoltaic and home storage systems in multi-family houses (MFHs) in Germany lags significantly behind their development in single-family houses. The Landlord-to-Tenant (L2T) power supply model is meant to reduce this gap, yet few
Mauricio Celi Cortés   +5 more
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The Naive Autobiographical Novel Tkachov’s Life by Fedor Kudreshov

open access: yesAvtobiografija, 2019
This contribution reproduces the text of the naive novel Tkachov’s Life (1850) written by Penza landlord clerk F. Kudreshov. Oral memories of his fellow villager Stepan Tkachov serve as a frame for a fictional autobiography, which is based on the images ...
Sergei Alpatov
doaj   +1 more source

INSECURITY OF PROPERTY RIGHTS AND MATCHING IN THE TENANCY MARKET [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper analyzes the effects of insecure property rights over land on the functioning of the land rental market in the Dominican Republic. It shows that insecurity of property rights not only reduces the level of activity of the land rental market ...
Macours, Karen
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Rent Fraud: Illegal Rent Increases and the Loss of Affordable Housing in New York City [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
By analyzing rent registration histories ("rent histories") from 200 randomly selected apartments from across New York City and examining the Division of Housing and Community Renewal's (DHCR) services, this study investigates how often landlords ...

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EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH: Implications and Counter‐measures

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is ‘epistemic extractivism’, and how does it affect researchers who are engaged in urban and housing movements? This essay first explores the contexts of both engaged research and epistemic extractivism, clarifying their meanings and implications. It also disentangles the ethical and methodological risks posed by epistemic extractivism in
Miguel A. Martínez
wiley   +1 more source

Interdependence Effects of Housing Abandonment and Renovation [PDF]

open access: yes
This study uses a methodology for analyzing the interdependence effects of abandonment and renovation for profit-maximizing landlords. After using a Prisoners’ Dilemma game of abandonment to establish the existence of the interdependence phenomenon ...
Tammie X. Simmons-Mosley
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READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
wiley   +1 more source

VISUAL NEGOTIATIONS OF GENTRIFICATION IN TORONTO: Contestation, Politicization and Resistance through Urban Signage

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article engages signage as a medium through which urban stakeholders negotiate the politics of housing redevelopment and gentrification in cities. Focusing on Toronto, we examine housing‐related signage in three neighbourhoods where social mix approaches to redevelopment have ushered in gentrification: Parkdale, Regent Park, and Moss Park.
Lindi Jahiu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

54 rue DuBalcon

open access: yesBioéthiqueOnline, 2016
Photographic material reflecting the positive experience between a landlord and his tenant Various ...
Kinkead, Audrey
doaj  

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