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PARTY‐STATE URBANISM: Coevolution of Local State Capacity and Strategic Alliances in Shenzhen
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract What is distinct about Chinese urban governance? Classic theories predict that when the central state retreats from resource allocation, capacity‐strained local governments must form alliances with non‐state actors, thereby diluting state power. In China, however, state power remains dominant despite decentralization.
Yunhan Wen
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BelgeoThis contribution examines the profiles of the players involved in the financialization of the private rental residential sector, in terms of ownership and management.
Charlotte Casier
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The Lancet Planetary Health, 2019 Summary: Background: Poor sanitation in peri-urban areas is a growing public health problem. We tested a scalable, demand-side behaviour change intervention to motivate landlords to improve the quality of shared toilets within their plots.
James B Tidwell, PhD +5 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how socio‐political constructions of rental markets create housing vulnerabilities for subaltern renters. Going beyond the typical focus on occupancy claims in slums, I study rent and racialization in Indian cities through the experiences of Northeastern migrant women living in Bengaluru.
Meghna Mohandas
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BelgeoThis article uses cadastral data to analyse the profile of landlords who rent out one or more housing units in Brussels. Contrary to certain preconceptions about the financialisation of housing, it appears that most rented housing is owned by rather well-
Hugo Périlleux
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LEASEHOLDS – AN ALTERNATIVE TO REGULAR OWNERSHIP TITLES [PDF]
Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2013 For property law, the system of estates represents the most obvious of many links between past and present. The very word “estate”, drawn from and implying status, signifies the feudal origins of the system.
ELENA-RALUCA DINU
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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
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Servitude of transmission - restriction of exercise of ownership right?
Przegląd Prawniczy Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza, 2015 The study aims at an analysis of the servitude of transmission as a form of restriction of the ownership. The author is contrasting the legal status of landlords from the times before servitude of transmission was established and after its implementation.
Krzysztof Westfal
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TAXI, CHILLI AND MOBILE PARTY BRANCH: Reterritorialization of Migrants in Urban Villages, Shenzhen
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In China as well as in other countries, migrants often grapple with urban inequities by actively reshaping the functions and meanings of their environments. While acknowledging established frameworks such as place‐making and urban informality, this study adopts a complementary lens, framing migrants’ everyday practices as a process of ...
Xinrui Gao, Jennifer Day, Sun Sheng Han
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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 +2 more
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