Globalization and Dynamics of Urban Production

Natacha Aveline-Dubach

• Publisher: Wiley-ISTE
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781789451382
• eBook ISBN: 9781394257478
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Globalisation
• Index: Social Sciences

Over the last 20 years, urbanization processes have undergone profound transformations under the growing influence of private actors, particularly in the financial sector. This has exposed the physical environment of various cities to global capital flows, which has generated an overall rise in real estate values on a global scale. This is often disconnected from the financial capacities of local actors – primarily households – which then increases the inequalities and vulnerabilities of societies regarding financial and environmental risks.

This book offers the keys to understanding these new dynamics of capital accumulation in the general built-up environment of cities by taking into account the diversity of their configurations, their intensity and their urban effects according to national contexts. Beyond the cases involving the major Western countries, the initial centers of the financial industry and the theorizations on the urban, this book addresses the particular contexts of real estate production in four major regions: Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and West Africa.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part 1. Sectoral Reconfigurations of Property Markets and Urban (Re)Development
• Part 2. Regional Dynamics of Capital Accumulation in East Asian, Middle Eastern and West African Real Estate Markets
• Conclusion
• List of Authors
• Index
• EULA