Transportation Costs and Urban Land Rent Theory: The Milwaukee Example: 1949-1969

1974 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siim Soot
Keyword(s):  
Urban Land ◽  
Transportation Costs ◽  
Land Rent ◽  
Rent Theory

Appropriating rent from greenfield affordable housing: developer practices in Johannesburg

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-361
Author(s):  
Siân Butcher
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
The State ◽  
Land Rent ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Personal Connections ◽  
Monopoly Rents ◽  
Rent Theory

‘Affordable housing’ for Johannesburg’s growing middle class is a developmentalist imperative and potentially lucrative market. However, few greenfield developers have found this market profitable. Fundamental to those who have, is control over land and its development. This paper puts heterodox urban land rent theory to work vis-à-vis the logics and practices of these developers. I illustrate how greenfield affordable housing developers work to (re)produce differential and monopoly rents in this context. Differential rents rely on investing in cheap land produced through the city’s racialised geography, and controlling land’s development through vertical integration, dynamic negotiations with local government and development finance institutions, and steering money and people into developments. Monopoly rents rely on the power of developers to act together as a class to secure land, give the appearance of competition and lobby the state in their interests. This power is built through racialised control over land and long personal connections. It is also consolidated by the state’s own land development bureaucracy and preference for ‘mega’ developments and recognisable developers. Together, these developer strategies to accrue differential and monopoly rents demonstrate their active role in the everyday making of land and housing markets. They also demand extensions of heterodox urban land rent theory: first, a more articulated understanding of how class monopoly power over land is built through race, and second, a more contingent analysis of capital’s relations to other actors and institutions, especially the state.

A renda fundiária urbana: uma categoria de análise ainda válida

GEOgraphia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Adriano Botelho
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Spatial Segregation ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Land Rent ◽  
Investment Funds ◽  
The Real Estate

Resumo: Renda fundiária urbana é uma categoria pouco explorada pela maioria dos estudos mais recentes sobre o urbano. Porém, essa categoria oferece uma possibilidade de abordagem do urbano que permite a análise de fenômenos importantes, como a hierarquização dos usos do solo, o papel do setor imobiliário para a acumulação do capital e para a reprodução das relações de produção capitalistas, além de ser importante para o entendimento do processo de segregação sócio-espacial e fragmentação do espaço no urbano. Assim, levando-se em consideração os estudos passados e as dificuldades que ainda hoje permanecem, a questão da renda fundiária é retomada no presente artigo. Como forma de viabilização da análise da questão da renda fundiária urbana foi realizado um estudo de caso sobre uma modalidade de intervenção no urbano por parte do setor imobiliário em aliança com o mercado financeiro no município de São Paulo: os Fundos de Investimento Imobiliário e a Securitização de Recebíveis Imobiliários.  THE URBAN LAND RENT: A CATEGORY OF ANALYSIS STILL VALID Abstract: Urban land rent is a category little explored by most recent urban studies. However, this category offers a possible approach for urban space that allows the analysis of relevant phenomena, like hierarchy in land use, the role of the real estate industry for capital accumulation and for reproduction of relationships in capitalist production, besides its importance in understanding the socio-spatial segregation and fragmentation process. In this sense, taking into account earlier studies and difficulties that still remain, this article aims to analyse the problem of land rent. To make this analysis possible, we present a case study about a kind of urban intervention by real estate agents in association with the finance market in the city of São Paulo: Real Estate Investment Funds and Real Estate Bonus. Keywords: Urban Land Rent, Fragmentation, Socio-Spatial Segregation, Urban, Real Estate Financing, Reproduction of Capital.

Urban Land Rent and Real Estate Markets in the Process of Social Restructuring: The Case of Germany

1992 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Krätke
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Land Markets ◽  
Land Rent ◽  
Land Rents ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Social Restructuring ◽  
Urban Land Markets

In this paper the urban real estate market is dealt with in the context of broad societal changes. Particular restructuring processes, such as the social and economic polarization between urban regions and the uncoupling of the spheres of production and financial investments, are leading to a rehierarchization of urban land markets and significant changes in the formation of urban land rents. The restructuring of urban land markets is demonstrated with empirical data on cities in West Germany. Against this background the author pleads for a partial reformulation of urban rent theory.

scholarly journals A renda fundiária urbana: uma categoria de análise ainda válida

GEOgraphia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriano Botelho
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Spatial Segregation ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Land Rent ◽  
Investment Funds ◽  
The Real Estate

Resumo: Renda fundiária urbana é uma categoria pouco explorada pela maioria dos estudos mais recentes sobre o urbano. Porém, essa categoria oferece uma possibilidade de abordagem do urbano que permite a análise de fenômenos importantes, como a hierarquização dos usos do solo, o papel do setor imobiliário para a acumulação do capital e para a reprodução das relações de produção capitalistas, além de ser importante para o entendimento do processo de segregação sócio-espacial e fragmentação do espaço no urbano. Assim, levando-se em consideração os estudos passados e as dificuldades que ainda hoje permanecem, a questão da renda fundiária é retomada no presente artigo. Como forma de viabilização da análise da questão da renda fundiária urbana foi realizado um estudo de caso sobre uma modalidade de intervenção no urbano por parte do setor imobiliário em aliança com o mercado financeiro no município de São Paulo: os Fundos de Investimento Imobiliário e a Securitização de Recebíveis Imobiliários.  THE URBAN LAND RENT: A CATEGORY OF ANALYSIS STILL VALID Abstract: Urban land rent is a category little explored by most recent urban studies. However, this category offers a possible approach for urban space that allows the analysis of relevant phenomena, like hierarchy in land use, the role of the real estate industry for capital accumulation and for reproduction of relationships in capitalist production, besides its importance in understanding the socio-spatial segregation and fragmentation process. In this sense, taking into account earlier studies and difficulties that still remain, this article aims to analyse the problem of land rent. To make this analysis possible, we present a case study about a kind of urban intervention by real estate agents in association with the finance market in the city of São Paulo: Real Estate Investment Funds and Real Estate Bonus. Keywords: Urban Land Rent, Fragmentation, Socio-Spatial Segregation, Urban, Real Estate Financing, Reproduction of Capital.

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