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    <title>Articulo - Journal of Urban Research</title>
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    <description>Articulo – Journal of Urban Research is a peer-reviewed online journal devoted to the exploration of urban issues through the lens of a wide range of social science approaches. The Journal embraces a multidisciplinary perspective on the transformation of social, environmental and economic issues of cities and city regions. Publishing both theoretical and empirical articles, the Journal is an international forum that brings together academics and practitioners working on urban issues in cities around the world to present ground breaking and relevant research.</description>        
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    <title>The dynamics of metropolitan peripheries: Ongoing changes in residential development in the North-Western corridor of the Madrid region</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">This paper examines the ongoing transformations of residential development underway in the North-Western corridor of the Madrid metropolitan region, which are a consequence of a deconcentration process that has affected the capital of Spain over several decades. It also outlines the historical forces that have paved the way for the contemporary suburbanisation process. This part of the Madrid region, traditionally used for animal husbandry or leisure activities for wealthy social classes, was later occupied by second homes. In recent years we have observed a transformation of these second homes into principal residences, together with a construction of brand-new primary residences. This is linked to the rise in housing prices occurring in central Madrid, which has fostered a centrifugal movement of population. This process has particularly affected single-family housing.</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Marco Adelfio</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Manuel Valenzuela</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2013-04-13</dc:date>
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    <title>The student’s new companion on economic geography</title>
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      <p class="texte" dir="ltr"><span style="color:#000000;">To come straight to the point, the new textbook </span><span style="color:#000000;"><em>Wirtschaftsgeographie</em></span><span style="color:#000000;"> [Economic Geography] by Boris Braun and Christian Schulz is a highly recommendable read. In pursuit of its goal to outline “</span><span style="color:#000000;"><em>a very dynamic and multifarious sub-domain of geography</em></span><span style="color:#000000;">” [author’s translation] (p. 249), this book is mainly directed at current and prospective students of the field of economic geography (p. 6). It keeps both these promises in quite an appealing manner. Alongside an insightful introduction to the myriad of theoretical structures applied in economic geography, its strength lies mainly in its engaging and stylistically coherent review as well as in the systematic cross-linkage of major topics. Valuable didactic tricks – such as info boxes giving a quick overview at the beginning of each chapter, additional text boxes that provide examples to underline the theoretical structures discussed, highlighted keywords in the body of the text, a rich stock of illustrations and charts, as well as revie...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Sabine Dörry</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2012-12-18</dc:date>
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    <title>Postcards from the urban worlds of young city dwellers</title>
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      <p class="texte"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">The state of the world’s children 2012 report from UNICEF is entitled <em>Children in An Urban World</em>. This flagship publication highlights that almost half of the children in the world are living in urban environment. This provides opportunities for individual development, but also gives rise to increasing inequalities and challenges to children’s rights. As an instructive and updated synthesis of these issues, <em>Children, Youth and the City</em> sheds light on the complex interaction between young people and their urban environments. According to Hörschelmann and van Blerk, the aim of this book is “[…] <em>to show both how children and youth contribute to the making of urban spaces and how the particular structures, textures and materialities of cities inform how they live their diverse lives</em>” (p. 1). The goal was ambitious, but brilliantly accomplished through a comprehensive review of relevant literature and a collection of diverse and relevant examples.</span></p>
      <p class="texte"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">The book is published at a moment of rela...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Juan Torres</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2012-11-26</dc:date>
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    <title>Disentangling the geography of finance and real estate: competing space-times of decision-making and uneven spatial development</title>
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      <p class="abstract" dir="ltr">The versatile ‘city building’ processes are in the focus of this issue. The author’s papers deal with a plurality of related issues such as the complexities of the increasing transparency of local property markets or the tight relations between city planners and (inter-)national investors. As the built environment decides on a city’s economic prospect and determines future planning and development opportunities, the consequences of city building processes are multifaceted. Financial processes of urban (re)development, for example, are discussed at the cutting edge of a larger process of uneven development, which is rooted in the structure of the capitalist mode of production and fuels controversial debates on the ownership of the city. The current edition aims to attract further attention to the complex of financial matters and the production of the built environment with the intention to locate both more centrally within geography, planning, and economics. Against this background, ...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Sabine Dörry</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Michael Handke</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2012-11-23</dc:date>
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    <title>“Turning pumpkins into carriages”: sustainable urban development and the financialization of ‘green’ commercial real estate in France</title>
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      <p class="abstract" dir="ltr">There is increasing pressure from political circles and citizens’ groups to ensure the production of urban built forms that can address both social and economic needs while respecting long-term environmental goals. This has resulted in new legislative and policy frameworks aimed at encouraging the adoption of sustainable development practices. This paper analyzes how professionals investing finance capital in commercial real estate properties in France are responding to such pressure. It raises the theoretical question of how sustainability goals may be internalized by investors in a context of financialization of urban production. Based on a qualitative analysis, the paper questions how property investors engage with the sustainability agenda and how this affects their organizational charts, business strategies, investment processes and day-to-day management of commercial real estate. The results show that FCIs have to internalize potentially contradictory objectives, i.e., counter...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Katia Attuyer</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Antoine Guironnet</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Ludovic Halbert</dc:creator>
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    <title>The social construction of real estate market risk. The case of a financial investments cluster in Mexico City</title>
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      <p class="abstract" dir="ltr">This article contributes to the study of the geographical concentration of financial investments in real estate markets. It demonstrates the social construction process at work in the evolution of real estate market risks. The objective is to highlight the conditions that allow or impede the implementation of ‘opportunistic’ and ‘conservative’ risk strategies. By analyzing the market entry of financial investors in the Cuautitlan industrial real estate market - an ‘emerging’ real estate market in Mexico City - this paper demonstrates that, due to the joint action of land developers, non-financial as well as financial real estate investors, this market moved from being ‘too risky’ to becoming an opportunistic market, and then a conservative one. There were two important phases in the transformation process. First, the contribution of land developers was fundamental to the transformation of the market from being too risky to being opportunistic from the perspective of financial invest...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Louise David</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2012-11-23</dc:date>
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    <title>Implementing transparency in an Eastern European office market: preparing Warsaw for global investments</title>
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      <p class="abstract" dir="ltr">In the aftermath of an increasing integration of property and financial markets, the real estate industry is subject to soaring internationalization processes. Since international institutional investors appeared, transnational real estate investments have increased tremendously. In recent years, Central and Eastern European countries have been becoming more attractive to institutional investors and are therefore being integrated into international market structures. Within these countries, Warsaw emerged as the most dynamic and important real estate market. But what are the mechanisms and practices through which the real estate market of Warsaw becomes international? Which networks, intermediaries and frames are necessary to constitute a mature real estate market? The article argues that international real estate consultants are playing a crucial role in the underlying internationalization process. They are acting at the interface between investors, developers, construction compani...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Nadine Bitterer</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Susanne Heeg</dc:creator>
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    <title>Real estate market and urban transformations: spatio-temporal analysis of house price increase in the centre of Marseille (1996-2010)</title>
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      <p class="abstract" dir="ltr">Over more than ten years, France has experienced a twofold increase of residential housing prices. This was largely fuelled by the credit conditions and a general fear of the future. A strong negative correlation between initial price level and its increase leads to a massive trend of spatial homogenization of the prices. Such a tendency is fairly vigorous in the metropolitan area of Marseille, and particularly in its extremely poor and long devaluated centre, where prices have risen by over 200% since the mid-1990s. This real estate market evolution is emblematic of Neil Smith’s rent gap hypothesis. Yet, a detailed survey of spatial differentials of price increase shows that contiguous central neighbourhoods with similar price levels before the recent tremendous upsurge are affected by appreciably different price rises. Therefore, this unequal price evolution cannot be understood without a clearer analysis on the ‘potential land value’ than provided by Smith’s model. In the context...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Guilhem Boulay</dc:creator>
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    <title>Living with Familiar Hazards: Flood Experiences and Human Vulnerability in Accra, Ghana</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">The paper explores demographic characteristics, migration history, and impact of flooding on households and communities. The main objective is to explore the different ways in which floods impact households and communities in Accra. Specifically, the paper analyzes how floods alter the set of resources available to households and communities. The results indicate that urbanization and governmental policies have rendered more people, especially the poor and recent migrants, homeless. These homeless people have become more vulnerable to flooding than the average Accra resident. The results also show that the homeless community contrast with the fixed community in terms of socio-economic characteristics, degree of social cohesion, and physical location. The paper concludes that the unchanging pattern of vulnerability shows the inability of a society to cope and adjust to familiar hazards. </span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Dacosta Aboagye</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2012-10-30</dc:date>
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    <title>A drift in a sea of global urban research</title>
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      <p class="texte" dir="ltr"><span style="color:#000000;">John Friedmann (2005: x) recently wrote that most of the scholarly accounts of urbanization in China “</span><span style="color:#000000;"><em>are essentially snapshots taken at a single point in time that will soon acquire the feel of a distant, bygone era</em></span><span style="color:#000000;">”. Beyond its application to the China case, Friedmann’s comment conveys a common impression among students of world urbanization, constantly grappling with the challenge of keeping up with a multifaceted and rapidly changing phenomenon. The collection of essays assembled by Birch and Wachter is therefore a welcome addition to the growing literature on the worldwide urbanization process, bringing together a sea of information about urban populations, research methods, and municipal governance.</span></p>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr"><span style="color:#000000;">This compendium draws together papers presented at a conference entitled ‘Towards a Twenty-First-Century Urban Agenda’, which was held in Italy in 2007 under the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation. The resulting volume is structured around three basic – yet fundamental – questio...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Danielle Labbé</dc:creator>
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