A Malleable Cityscape

2019 ◽  
pp. 38-57
Author(s):  
Anish Vanaik
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Property Market ◽  
Property Development ◽  
Boom And Bust ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City

Chapter 2 presents the pattern of boom and bust in the property market and connects this to Delhi’s economy as a whole. With a depression of property construction in the 1920s and a boom in the mid-1930s, the Delhi property market was turbulent during this period. Carefully tracking the locations and timing of this pattern of rise and fall reveals the extent to which it was private property development rather than state-directed plans for urban expansion that generated Delhi’s cityscape. Over this period of bust and boom, however, the property market was constituted by new connections between industry, finance, and real estate. Using a database of permission to build created from the the Building Sub-Committee of the Delhi Municipal Committee, this chapter lays out a periodization of the property market. In turn, this had implications for urban space, from the individual house to the neighbourhood and indeed the city as a whole.

Possessing the City

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anish Vanaik
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Property Market ◽  
Property Development ◽  
Land Rents ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

This book is a social history of the property market in late-colonial Delhi; a period of much turbulence and transformation. It argues that historians of South Asian cities must connect transformations in urban space and Delhi’s economy. Utilizing a novel archive, it outlines the place of private property development in Delhi’s economy from 1911 to 1947. Rather than large-scale state initiatives, like the Delhi Improvement Trust, it was profit-oriented, decentralized, and market-based initiatives of urban construction that created the Delhi cityscape. A second thematic concern of Possessing the City is to carefully specify the emerging relationship between the state and urban space during this period. Rather than a narrow focus on urban planning ideas, it argues that the relationship be thought of in triangular fashion: the intermediation of the property market was crucial to emerging statecraft and urban form during this period. Finally, the book examines struggles and conflicts over the commodification of land. Rents and prices of urban property were directly at issue in the tussles over housing that are examined here. The question of commodification can, however, also be discerned in struggles that were not ostensibly about economic issues: clashes over religious sites in the city. Through careful attention to the historical interrelationships between state, space, and the economy, this book offers a novel intervention in the history of late-colonial Delhi.

scholarly journals Urban Growth, Real Estate Development and Indigenous Property: Simulating the Expansion Process in the City of Temuco, Chile

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Francisco Maturana ◽  
Mauricio Morales ◽  
Fernando Peña-Cortés ◽  
Marco A. Peña ◽  
Carlos Vielma
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Objective Evaluation ◽  
Real Estate Development ◽  
Territorial Planning ◽  
The Future ◽  
Urban Scenario ◽  
The City

Urbanization is spreading across the world and beyond metropolitan areas. Medium-sized cities have also undergone processes of accelerated urban expansion, especially in Latin America, thanks to scant regulation or a complete lack thereof. Thus, understanding urban growth in the past and simulating it in the future has become a tool to raise its visibility and challenge territorial planners. In this work, we use Markov chains, cellular automata, multi-criteria multi-objective evaluation, and the determination of land use/land cover (LULC) to model the urban growth of the city of Temuco, Chile, a paradigmatic case because it has experienced powerful growth, where real estate development pressures coexist with a high natural value and the presence of indigenous communities. The urban scenario is determined for the years 2033 and 2049 based on the spatial patterns between 1985 and 2017, where the model shows the trend of expansion toward the northeast and significant development in the western sector of the city, making them two potential centers of expansion and conflict in the future given the heavy pressure on lands that are indigenous property and have a high natural value, aspects that need to be incorporated into future territorial planning instruments.

scholarly journals Street Names through Sociological Lenses. Part II: Constructionism and Utilitarianism

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihai Stelian Rusu
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Place Branding ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
Previous Issue ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
The Real Estate Market ◽  
The City

AbstractAs toponymic means of inscribing urban space, street names have been addressed mainly by human geographers, who have articulated the field of critical place-name studies. In this paper, I continue the endeavor started in the previous issue published in Social Change Review of reading street names through sociological lenses. Whereas in the first part of this two-part contribution the analysis was made from functionalist and conflictualist perspectives, this second and final part employs social constructionism and the utilitarian theoretical tradition in making sociological sense of street nomenclatures. First, conceiving of street names as forming discursively constructed linguistic landscapes, the paper shows how urban namescapes – the “city-text” – are written, erased, and rewritten to reflect the shifting political powers. Second, the paper examines the neoliberal processes of place branding and toponymic commodification by which street names are turned into sought-after urban commodities with transactional value on the real estate market. The paper concludes by inviting sociologists to join the conversation on street names, which should become an important topic of sociological reflection.

Diversity As A Unique Constellation of Superimposing Network Logics

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-14
Author(s):  
Alain Thierstein ◽  
Anne Wiese
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Industrial Sites ◽  
Individual Site ◽  
Scale Levels ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City ◽  
Underlying Processes

In the context of the European city, the regeneration of former industrial sites is a unique opportunity to actively steer urban development. These plots of land gain strategic importance in actively triggering development on the city scale. Ideally, these interventions radiate beyond the individual site and contribute to the strengthening of the location as a whole. International competition between locations is rising and prosperous development a precondition for wealth and wellbeing. This approach to the regeneration of inner city plots makes high demands on all those involved. Our framework suggests a stronger focus of the conceptualization and analysis of idiosyncratic resources, to enable innovative approaches in planning. On the one hand, we are discussing spatially restrained urban plots, which have the capacity and need to be reset. On the other hand, each plot is a knot in the web of relations on a multiplicity of scales. The material city is nested into a set of interrelated scale levels – the plot, the quarter, the city, the region, potentially even the polycentric megacity region. The immaterial relations however span a multicity of scale levels. The challenge is to combine these two perspectives for their mutual benefit. The underlying processes are constitutive to urban space diversity, as urban form shapes urban life and vice versa.

Representing Commodified Space

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-128
Author(s):  
Anish Vanaik
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
State Power ◽  
Property Market ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Representations Of Space

Chapter 4 examines ways of representing space as a commodity that played key roles in colonial Delhi: maps, lease deeds, advertisements, and auctions. These representations were related to the buying and selling of real estate in distinct ways. At the same time, they also referred to and relied on each other to give effect to their pronouncements. Two elements ran through these disparate representations: connections between space and time, and the imbrication of state and property market. This chapter argues that the ability to utilize these representations of space to develop narratives about urban space was a critical constituent of state power.

scholarly journals A representação da cozinha como elemento do produto imobiliário na cidade de Vitória entre as décadas de 1950 a 1970/The representation of the kitchen as element of the real estate product in the city of Vitoria between the decades of 1950 to 1970

2017 ◽  
pp. 94-108
Author(s):  
Erick Alessandro Schunig F ◽  
Paulo Cesar Scarin
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Qualitative Survey ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

As transformações do espaço urbano vêm introduzindo novos padrões que revelam elementos da dinâmica capitalista. Nesse aspecto, o apartamento residencial é apresentado como um produto dotado de novos conceitos em sintonia com as mudanças do capitalismo. Este estudo tem como objetivo desenvolver uma análise sobre as propagandas imobiliárias na cidade de Vitória, entre as décadas de 1950 a 1970, no qual identificamos as estratégias do setor da construção imobiliária em relação a cozinha como item diferencial do imóvel e inserido no sistema de produção da sociedade de consumo.ABSTRACTThis study aims to develop an analysis of the kitchen of the residential apartments in the city of Vitoria, between the 1950s and 1970s, as a space connected to the transformations promoted by capitalism. It was carried out a qualitative survey of advertisements published in a newspaper, as well as the use of authors who approach the relationship between the production of the urban space and the food. From this analysis, it was possible to verify that the transformation in the kitchen is indicative of the way of life established by the Brazilian urbanization during this period.Keywords: Kitchen; Urban space; Advertising.

scholarly journals GRANDES EMPREENDIMENTOS HABITACIONAIS NA CIDADE DE UBERLÂNDIA – MG

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivone Tavares Batista ◽  
Julio Cesar De Lima Ramires
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Home Ownership ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
City Hall ◽  
Real Estate Projects ◽  
The City ◽  
Housing Estates ◽  
Land Space

LARGE HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CITY OF UBERLÂNDIA – MGGRANDES EMPRENDIMIENTOS HABITACIONALES EN LA CIUDAD DE UBERLÂNDIA – MGO presente artigo busca demostrar e equiparar algumas formas de ocupação do espaço territorial urbano, onde os empreendimentos imobiliários, em parcerias com o Governo Federal, trazem para os municípios os conjuntos habitacionais, que comtemplam principalmente a população de baixa renda. Este trabalho objetiva analisar os empreendimentos habitacionais de interesse social implantados ao longo de décadas na cidade de Uberlândia, os quais implicam grandes efeitos na conjuntura urbana da cidade. Utiliza-se, como metodologia principal, pesquisas de arquivos da Prefeitura Municipal de Uberlândia, tendo como resultado o número de famílias atendidas pelos programas de habitação popular, o que traz a lume o grande valor da expansão das políticas públicas em relação à casa própria. Foi destacado, como objeto de análise, o grande empreendimento implantado no Setor Sul da cidade, denominado de Shopping Park III, IV, V, VI e VII, que colaborou para a diminuição da falta de moradia no Município de Uberlândia – MG.Palavras-chave: Espaço Urbano; Conjuntos Habitacionais; Ocupações Irregulares; Governo.ABSTRACTArticle present search demonstrate and match some forms of occupation of urban land space, where real estate projects with government partnerships bring to the municipalities the housing, which will mainly contemplate the low-income population, may provide these quality a dignified life. This work aims to analyze the housing developments of social interest implanted over decades in the city of Uberlândia using as main methodology searches files of the City Hall of Uberlândia resulting in the number of families served by the popular housing programs, realizing how much is necessary expansion of public policies in relation to home ownership. It was highlighted as analyzed in the great enterprise implant in Sector South of the city, called Shopping Park III, IV, V, VI and VII, which contributed to the reduction of homelessness in the city of Uberlândia - MG.Keywords: Urban Space; Housing Estates; Illegal Occupation; Government.RESUMEN El presente artículo busca demostrar y equipar algunas formas de ocupación del espacio territorial urbano, donde los emprendimientos inmobiliarios en alianzas con el Gobierno, traen a los municipios los conjuntos habitacionales, que van a comportarse principalmente a la población de bajos ingresos. Este trabajo objetiva analizar los emprendimientos habitacionales de interés social implantados a lo largo de décadas en la ciudad de Uberlândia utilizando como metodología principal investigaciones archivos del Ayuntamiento Municipal de Uberlândia dando como resultado el número de familias atendidas por los programas de vivienda popular, percibiendo cuán necesaria es la expansión de las políticas públicas en relación a la casa propia. Se destacó como objeto de análisis el gran emprendimiento implantado en el Sector Sur de la ciudad, denominado de Shopping Park III, IV, V, VI y VII, que colaboró para la disminución de la falta de vivienda en el Municipio de Uberlândia - MG.Palabras clave: Espacio Urbano; Conjuntos Habitacionales; Ocupaciones Irregulares; Gobierno.

scholarly journals Practical urban: The urbanity and its relationship with the contemporary city.

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Balestra ◽  
Amilton Arruda ◽  
Pablo Bezerra ◽  
Isabela Moroni
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City

As the Industrial Revolution took place and steam driven machines emerged in the 18th century, the Industrial Age began and cities became the core of industrial and populational growth. That phenomena occurred as the job opportunities and quality of life increasingly developed away from the countryside, with the arrival of electricity and inventions such as the light bulb, thanks to important people like Sir Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison. The city, therefore, can be looked in two different ways: the urban space, occupied with tangible elements, and the social environment, filled with urban practices and cohabitation. An essential matter in many disciplines, the city is a recurrent topic for researchers who seek to understand this phenomenon of human activities. The history behind the rise of the cities show tell us about the creation of urban spaces and its manifestations, functions, transformations and the complexity inherent to the various typologies in cities all over the world. The city is a scenario full of overlapping messages that characterize the accessibility and urban communication. This is defined by Nojima (1999) as the result of the interaction between social representations and the scenario where they occur. It is through the interpretation of these messages that are manifested in the urban design accessible from cities (streets, buildings, gardens, squares, furnitures), that the individual defines the elements that identify their city. This paper discovery the concepts of city and their accessibility relationships with urban practices - design of urban activity - that directly influence the implementation of urban furniture and, above all, the importance given to them by the population, with regard to its true functions (adequacy, accessibility, ergonomics, identity and others) of their uses and appropriations. It is important for the study also understand the urban furniture relation with the project of cities - is to complement the public space or the way how interferes the urban landscape. It is need to understand how society is shown in front of herself and the world itself that surrounds and what are the affective devices that make city living when connected - through the use - therefore, this is the powerfull forces of individuals and community , space practices created by the tactics of the population to allow theirs ambiance, wellness, safety and comfort, sensations often perceived by the set of elements that constitute the urban furniture of cities.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/IFDP.2016.3291

scholarly journals A constituição espacial de uma cidade portuária através dos ciclos produtivos industriais: o caso do município do Rio Grande (1874-1970)

2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Solismar Fraga Martins ◽  
Margareth Afeche Pimenta
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Industrialization Process ◽  
Import And Export ◽  
Technical Basis ◽  
The City

Rio Grande, cidade portuária e primeira demarcação lusitana nas terras rio-grandenses apresentou um rápido processo de industrialização no final do século XIX, resultado da acumulação de capital comercial, proveniente das atividades de importação e exportação. Celeremente, plantas industriais com base produtiva diversificada foram instaladas, expandindo a antiga cidade comercial e conformando o espaço urbano através da introdução de novas estruturas produtivas e de uma excelente base técnica que conformaram os sentidos da expansão urbana, compondo, de forma dual, movimento de renovação arquitetônica em moldes europeus e vilas operárias. Tal realidade se manteve até 1950, quando a economia industrial começa a dar mostras de debilidade, restringindo ou fechando parte de seu parque fabril. De forma paralela, ocorre uma proliferação de todo tipo de loteamento privado, originando as “vilas” periféricas e ocasionando a ruptura entre a cidade e a indústria.Palavras-chave: configuração espacial urbana; ciclos produtivos industriais; história urbana; vilas operárias; patrimônio arquitetônico. Abstract: Rio Grande, a city with an harbor, and the first Portuguese landmark in the Rio Grande do Sul state, presented a fast industrialization process at the end of the nineteenth century, due to commercial capital accumulation originated from import and export activities. Quickly, industrial plants of different sectors were established, enlarging the old commercial city and modeling the urban space through the introduction of new productive structures and excellent technical basis that defined the trends of the urban expansion, composed both by an architectural renewal movement based on the European model and workers’ villages. Such reality was kept until 1950, when the industrial economy began to show economical weakness, restraining or closing part of its industrial park. Simultaneously, a proliferation of all kinds of private lots took place in the city, creating peripheral villages and provoking the rupture between the city and the industrial activity.Keywords: urban spatial configuration; industrial productive cycles; urban history; workers’ villages; architectural patrimony.

scholarly journals Selected Aspects of the Residential Property Market in the Context of Creating a City Image (an Example from Rzeszów)

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-52
Author(s):  
Wiesława Kuźniar ◽  
Kazimierz Cyran
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
City Image ◽  
Residential Real Estate ◽  
Property Market ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
High Dynamics ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

The main goal of the article is to evaluate the city’s real estate sub-product and identify the impact of perception of this urban sphere on the overall image of Rzeszów city among students. A thesis was accepted by the authors that the attractive image of Rzeszów determines the development of the residential real estate market, attracting especially young, educated people to the city. On the basis of a literature analysis of the subject, information obtained from secondary sources on the topic of Rzeszów, as well as surveys carried out in 2018 among students (n = 325), the thesis was confirmed. Thanks to the fast, modern development of the city and consistently implemented marketing activities, Rzeszów is perceived as an innovative city that is friendly to residents, investors and students. This contributes to the inflow of new, usually young, educated residents and investors, which in turn translates into high dynamics in the residential real estate market. Questionnaire surveys carried out among students have shown that they highly appreciate the current image of Rzeszów and, most after graduation, plan to stay in the city which in their opinion is an attractive place for everyday life.

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