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Urban sprawl : neighbourhood dissatisfaction and urban preferences : some evidence from Flanders [PDF]

, 2016
Early studies suggest that people living in rural neighbourhoods are more satisfied with their residential location than people living in cities. Consequently, most individuals seem to prefer low-density environments to reside in.
De Vos, Jonas, Van Acker, Veronique, Witlox, Frank   +2 more
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
wiley   +1 more source

From gentrification to the geography of gentrification: shifts in paradigms and methods

Computational Urban Science
With the advancement of globalization and neoliberalism, gentrification studies have expanded beyond the original focus on living space changes of low-income groups in urban communities in Western Europe and North America, to the broader changes in the ...
Wei Tao, Jialong Wang, Jingjing Li, Jun Lu, Haitong Mo   +4 more
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FINANCIALIZED GREEN STATE ENTREPRENEURIALISM AND THE URBANIZATION OF MOUNTAINS: Chongli’s Consumption‐based Territorial Business Model for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Kırsal Peyzajdaki Değişim Üzerinden Soylulaştırmayı Okumak: Yunt Dağı Örneği (Manisa)

Coğrafi Bilimler Dergisi
This study aims to determine the rural gentrification process in Yunt Mountain, which is located in a between İzmir and Manisa provinces and is an important geographical value with its physical and human geography elements.
Ferhat Arslan, Cengiz Gürbıyık, Yasin Furkan Şenlik   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gentrification Processes In The City [PDF]

, 2014
Published in: Society and Space in Contemporary Poland in Łódź University Geographical Research, edited by T.MarszałDue to the fact that gentrification is a phenomenon of a global nature, it was considered important to survey it in post-socialist city ...
Jakóbczyk-Gryszkiewicz, Jolanta, Marcinczak, Szymon, Wolaniuk, Anita   +2 more
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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

REPAIR AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR URBAN COMMONING: The Making of the Liberated Spaces in Naples

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Commoning requires repair. Where capitalist logics of accumulation, enclosure and exclusion produce abandoned space through the city, urban commoners remake that space to serve the needs of inhabitants. Without hiding the paradoxes and risks of repair, based on years‐long ethnography in the Liberated Spaces in Naples, Italy, we demonstrate how
Martina Locorotondo, Adam Fishwick
wiley   +1 more source

Inclusion or Exclusion? The Spatial Habitus of Rural Gentrifiers

Social Inclusion
Several rural areas all over the world have experienced the inflow of the urban better‐off. This rural gentrification takes various temporary and permanent forms, i.e., lifestyle migration, second‐home ownership, or short‐term visitors.
Kyra Tomay, Viktor Berger
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Negotiating urban change. Strategies and tactics of patrimonialization in Hackney Wick, East London [PDF]

, 2016
The heritage category function of building collective identity, condensing in specific goods, tangible or intangible, a set of locally significant values and practices, has been often pointed out to show its use in managing relations between the ...
Aliberti, Francesco, Rossi, Marta
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