Global-City-Formation, Immobilienwirtschaft und Transnationalisierung

2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christof Parnreiter
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Global City ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Real Estate Markets ◽  
Foreign Companies ◽  
City Formation ◽  
Office Space ◽  
The City

Global-City-formation and the making of a new “corporate geography“: The case of Mexico City. The paper argues that global-city-formation is a key driving force in the transformation of urban landscapes and in the globalization of real estate markets. Taking Mexico City as a case study it is shown that the growing presence of a) foreign companies and b) advanced producer sector firms increases demand for office space, in particular in the high end spectrum of the market. This demand is met by the production of a new CBD in western parts of the city. Mexico City’s corporate geography is, thus, characterized by two CBD, with the new one housing the majority of firms that entered the Mexican market in the last 15 years. The paper also argues that the new corporate geography is marked by processes of de- and transnationalization, becoming thus step by step detached from the urban fabric.

scholarly journals PAISAJES URBANOS, DIFERENCIA Y DESIGUALDAD. EL CASO DE LA BOCA EN BUENOS AIRES / Urban Landscapes, difference and inequality. A case study in La Boca, Buenos Aires

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Ana Clara Fabaron
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Spatial Transformations ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Visual Consumption ◽  
City Model ◽  
The City

<p>El propósito de este artículo es reflexionar críticamente en torno a la noción de paisaje y sus vinculaciones con modos -diferenciados y desiguales- de imaginar y habitar la ciudad. El análisis se sustenta en un estudio de caso en La Boca, un barrio de la zona sur de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, donde confluyen procesos de reconversión urbana y déficit habitacional. Desde un abordaje etnográfico junto al uso de fuentes secundarias, el trabajo explora las principales características y transformaciones socioespaciales del barrio en relación con el resto de la ciudad. El artículo focaliza en prácticas de habitantes y usuarios, en diálogo con distintas aproximaciones al concepto de paisaje, y con estudios que destacan la relación entre una estetización de las ciudades contemporáneas y un modelo exclusivo de ciudad. Desde una perspectiva del habitar -centrada en las prácticas urbanas- el enfoque propuesto procura tomar en cuenta las tensiones e imbricaciones entre los paisajes urbanos cotidianos de sus habitantes y los paisajes culturales orientados a un consumo visual, incorporando en el análisis las relaciones desiguales de poder.</p><p><br /><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p><br />This article aims to critically reflect upon the notion of landscape and its links with -differentiated and unequal- ways of imagining and inhabiting the city. The analysis is based on a case study in La Boca, a neighborhood in the southern area of the city of Buenos Aires, where urban reconversion processes coexists with housing insufficiency. Through an ethnographic approach supplemented with secondary sources, the paper explores the main characteristics and socio-spatial transformations of the neighborhood in relation with the rest of the city. The article focuses in dwellers and passersby practices, in dialogue with different approaches to the concept of landscape, and with studies that emphasize the relation between the aestheticisation of the contemporary cities and an exclusive city model. From a dwelling perspective -centered in urban practices- the proposed approach seeks take into account the tensions and interweaving between the daily urban landscapes of La Boca’ s dwellers and the cultural landscapes oriented toward visual consumption, incorporating in the analysis the unequal power relations.</p>

scholarly journals The Research on the Factors Analysis of Platform Economy City: A Case Study of Shanghai

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Ying Chen ◽  
Zhengyang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Driving Force ◽  
City Development ◽  
The Real ◽  
Factors Analysis ◽  
Leading Industry ◽  
Trading Activities ◽  
Virtual Platform ◽  
The City ◽  
Platform Economy

<p align="left">The enterprises of platform economy became the driving force and the engine for the development of economy. The industry of platform economy would be the leading industry and accelerate the city development and transformation in the future. The platform economy cities were the cities which provided the real or virtual platform space for the enterprises or individuals dealing with the trading activities and collaborating with externalities of urban platforms. The development of Shanghai was becoming the highly influential city in the network of global cities.</p>

Global-City-Formierung, Gentrifizierung und Grundrentenbildung in Frankfurt am Main

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Schipper
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
National Average ◽  
Global City ◽  
Land Values ◽  
Urban Hierarchy ◽  
Frankfurt Am Main ◽  
City Formation ◽  
Monopoly Rents ◽  
Property Markets

Global City formation, gentrification and the appropriation of ground rent in Frankfurt am Main. Based on statistics on land values between 1984 and 2012, this paper focuses on the relations between Global City formation, gentrification and the appropriation of ground rent in the case of Frankfurt am Main. It argues that the post-fordist urban hierarchy and the power of landowners to treat their property as a pure financial asset are reflected in rising and volatile ground rent levels in Germany’s most globalized financial center compared to the national average of urban property markets. Furthermore, it interprets the increasing potential for the appropriation of monopoly rents as a driving force behind recent gentrification processes in inner-city neighborhoods.

Building a Green New York

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Figueroa
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Global City ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Residential Property ◽  
Green Jobs ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Energy Retrofit ◽  
Office Space ◽  
The City

This chapter discusses two energy retrofit initiatives: the city- and real estate-led PlaNYC policy for retrofitting Manhattan's commercial office space, and the Laborers (LIUNA)-sponsored Green Jobs/Green New York weatherization initiative covering residential property in the city and the state. In the highly competitive and mostly nonunion residential property sector, a familiar tension between affordability for working-class consumers and union concerns with labor standards emerged as the federal stimulus funds used to finance retrofitting work were scaled back. Despite the enormous potential of a green jobs strategy to address employment disparities, revive neighborhoods without gentrification, and launch economic recovery while mitigating ecological damage, labor's vision of a sustainable city seemingly cannot prevail when it confronts the entrenched power of real estate and finance in the global city.

scholarly journals Infrastructuring the Circular Economy

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1805 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Nogueira ◽  
Weslynne Ashton ◽  
Carlos Teixeira ◽  
Elizabeth Lyon ◽  
Jonathan Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Industrial Ecology ◽  
System Level ◽  
Farmers Markets ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The City

The circular economy (CE), and its focus on the cycling and regeneration of resources, necessitates both a reconfiguration of existing infrastructures and the creation of new infrastructures to facilitate these flows. In urban settings, CE is being realized at multiple levels, from within individual organizations to across peri-urban landscapes. While most attention in CE research and practice focuses on organizations, the scale and impact of many such efforts are limited because they fail to account for the diversity of resources, needs, and power structures across cities, consequently missing opportunities for adopting a more effective and inclusive CE. Reconfiguring hard infrastructures is necessary for material resource cycling, but intervening in soft infrastructures is also needed to enable more inclusive decision-making processes to activate these flows. Utilizing participatory action research methods at the intersection of industrial ecology and design, we developed a new framework and a model for considering and allocating the variety of resources that organizations utilize when creating value for themselves, society, and the planet. We use design prototyping methods to synthesize distributed knowledge and co-create hard and soft infrastructures in a multi-level case study focused on urban food producers and farmers markets from the City of Chicago. We discuss generalized lessons for “infrastructuring” the circular economy to bridge niche-level successes with larger system-level changes in cities.

The coloniality of UNESCO’s heritage urban landscapes: Heritage process and transnational gentrification in Cuenca, Ecuador

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (15) ◽  
pp. 3060-3077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Real Estate Markets ◽  
Urban Upgrading ◽  
The City ◽  
Rights To The City

The article analyses heritage conservation and urban upgrading in Cuenca, Ecuador, in order to reflect on global inequality and rights to the city at the crossroads of transnational lifestyle mobilities and the globalisation of real estate markets. Processes of gentrification in Cuenca reproduce colonial social relations and marginalise the popular economic activities of informal vendors. Under the auspices of UNESCO World Heritage designation, the Inter-American Development Bank and successive municipal governments have sought to increase property values in the historic El Centro neighbourhood. Rather than relying on a local middle-class return to the city, heritage urban upgrading in Cuenca is dependent on higher-income global middle classes attracted to the city’s historic urbanism. The subsequent higher-income appropriation of urban improvements takes the form of dispossession of use and exchange values of lower-income groups, especially of informal vendors.

scholarly journals Study Abroad and the City: Mapping Urban Histories

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Blair
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
National Society ◽  
Intercultural Learning ◽  
Historical Sites ◽  
The City

The accumulation by study abroad students of course-related onsite study excursions to museums, historical sites and celebrated buildings no doubt results in meaningful learning experiences.  However, to make study abroad cities truly effective as sites for learning, educators must employ a well-conceived and theoretically-grounded approach that emphasizes the geographical, historical, and cultural formation of community identities linked to related urban spaces. Using a case study designed to analyze urban landscapes of LGBT communities in Paris, this article shows how mapping can be employed to use the city as a laboratory for intercultural learning, identity formation, and tolerance of diversity. This approach is based on best practices in experiential learning set forth by the National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE).  Examples of exercises and templates for onsite study are included.

Recasting urban imaginaries: politicized temporalities and the touristification of a notorious Mexico City barrio

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eveline Dürr ◽  
Raúl Acosta ◽  
Barbara Vodopivec
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Tour Guides ◽  
Urban Neighbourhoods ◽  
Slum Tourism ◽  
The City ◽  
Tour Guiding

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to point to the significance of temporally charged imaginaries of neglected places and their residents in the context of slum tourism research. It examines the way in which tour guides draw on specific temporalities to recast the poverty and stigma of the Mexico City barrio of Tepito and thus design narratives to alter long-held imaginaries of this neighbourhood. Design/methodology/approach Two tours are analysed through an anthropological lens using ethnographic methods. Authors took part in the tours, registering the guides’ discourse and interventions, as well as the places and situations observed. The insights of this paper stem from the empirical evidence and reveal how diverse imaginaries are enacted through tour guiding. Findings Without necessarily following a single, coherent narrative, tour guides link different moments in time to simultaneously generate and contest slum tour imaginaries. The guides in this case study not only challenge existing stereotypes, but also critically engage political neglect while showcasing Tepito’s potentiality. Even so, the analysed tours seek to recast the barrio as integral to Mexico City’s history and future. Originality/value Until now, the importance of temporalities in the generation of imaginaries in slum tourism research has gained only little attention. The case study presented here show how alternative forms of tourism are offering unconventional readings of urban neighbourhoods. These processes, the authors argue, help not only re-imagine disadvantaged districts, such as Tepito, but also to re-think the city as a whole in terms of its past, present and future.

scholarly journals Actions for adaptation and mitigation to climate change: Madrid case study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Oquendo Di Cosola ◽  
Jorge Adán Sánchez-Reséndiz ◽  
Lorenzo Olivieri ◽  
Francesca Olivieri
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Potential Value ◽  
Systemic Innovation ◽  
The City ◽  
Adaptation And Mitigation

Systemic innovation must be the driving force behind actions to transform cities to address climate change. It includes transformations of environmental, social, economic, financial, technical, regulatory, and governance nature, supporting the permanent change of cities. Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), can be part of the tools to address the challenges ahead. This research aims to define a framework of action in cities for the implementation of NBS, demonstrating the importance of quantifying its benefits in environmental and socio-economic terms, to boost public policy design and investment in this field. This work is divided into two parts. The first part, analyses some of the European measures in the field of sustainable development in cities, focusing the research on the case of Madrid. And in the second part, some case studies are presented to reflect the measures and actions taken to promote the implementation of NBS in the city of Madrid. As a result, the potential levers of change for the implementation of NBS are identified, highlighting the importance of quantifying their effects to demonstrate the potential value that can be generated within cities.

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