scholarly journals El distrito cultural y creativo del Digbeth (Birmingham, Reino Unido) y sus planes de regeneración urbana

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 181-204
Author(s):  
Jennifer García Carrizo
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
City Council ◽  
Development Plan ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Investment Plan ◽  
Big City ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
City Plan

The object of study of this research is the Digbeth cultural and creative district, located in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The main objective is to analyze the urban regeneration processes and the different plans proposed by different entities to restore and revitalize the area. To achieve this, different data collection techniques have been used, such as in-depth interviews, in which the model developed by Charmaz and Belgrave (2014) was followed; the bibliographic review of primary and secondary sources and the participant observation as a complete observer. As a result, a scrupulous analysis is carried out of the urban regeneration plans that the Birmingham City Council has proposed regarding the Eastside area, where Digbeth is located, such as the Big City Plan (Birmingham City Council, 2011), the Birmingham Development Plan 2031 (Birmingham City Council, 2017) and specific redevelopment plans for the area, such as the Curzon Investment Plan (Birmingham City Council, 2016). Likewise, the different regeneration plans developed by private initiatives such as Oval Real Estate for Digbeth are considered, analyzed and detailed, as well as the strategic visions and specific proposals for the regeneration of the area. Esta investigación tiene como objeto de estudio el distrito cultural y creativo del Digbeth, situado en Birmingham, Reino Unido. Su principal objetivo es analizar los procesos de regeneración urbana y los diferentes planes propuestos por diferentes entes con la finalidad de rehabilitar y revitalizar el área. Para ello, se han usado diferentes técnicas de recolección de datos, como las entrevistas en profundidad, en las que se siguió el esquema de preguntas desarrollado por Charmaz y Belgrave (2014); la revisión bibliográfica tanto de fuentes primarias como secundarias y la observación participante, con carácter de observador completo. Como resultado, se realiza un escrupuloso análisis de los planes de regeneración urbana que el Ayuntamiento de la Birmingham plantea vinculados a la zona del Eastside, en la que se encuentra el Digbeth, como son el Big City Plan (Birmingham City Council, 2011), el Birmingham Development Plan 2031 (Birmingham City Council, 2017) y planes específicos para la remodelación para el área, como el Curzon Investment Plan (Birmingham City Council, 2016). Igualmente, se consideran, analizan y detallan los diferentes planes de regeneración desarrollados por iniciativas privadas como Oval Real Estate para el Digbeth, así como las visiones estrategias y las propuestas específicas de regeneración del área.

scholarly journals Application of Data Mining Technology in Evaluating Real Estate Investment Plan Based on GRA-AHP

2019 ◽  
Vol 1284 ◽  
pp. 012037
Author(s):  
Zhuang Meier ◽  
Wen-Tsao Pan ◽  
Shi Zhuohong ◽  
Zhou Yingying ◽  
Zhong Zuchang
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Real Estate Investment ◽  
Mining Technology ◽  
Investment Plan

scholarly journals The Culture of Amateur Real Estate Investing

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Garboden
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Prior Experience ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Real Estate Investment ◽  
Real Estate Markets ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Do So

The majority of rental properties in the U.S. today is owned by small- to medium-sized investors, many of whom enter the trade with little prior experience. This paper considers the cultural factors that motivate these amateurs to purchase real estate–an investment with high risks and relatively poor returns. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 93 investors in three heterogeneous real estate markets, Baltimore, MD, Dallas, TX, and Cleveland, OH, combined with participant observation of 22 real estate investment association meetings (REIAs), this paper finds that amateurs who decide to become investors often do so during periods when their professional identities are insecure or they perceive their retirement portfolios to be insufficient. Through participation in real estate investment associations and other investor networks, they quickly internalize “investor culture,” embracing ideologies of self-sufficiency and risk. “Investor culture”—perpetuated by REIAs--motivates and legitimizes strategies of action that lead to increasingly leveraged investments. Third-party actors, including real estate gurus, paid mentors, and private “hard money” lenders exploit the intersection of insecurity and the propagation of investor culture to profit off amateurs’ investment decisions.

Analysis of Investment in Mutual Fund through Systematic Investment Planning - A Smart Investor

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mrs J Madhavilatha ◽  
J Bandi
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Low Risk ◽  
The Other ◽  
Investment Planning ◽  
Statistical Tools ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Investment Plan ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Motivating Factor ◽  
Main Barrier

Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) has emerged at alternative investment plan for large number of investors interested in high returns but less risk with investments in installments. The purpose of the study is to find out the motivating factor to invest in systematic investment plan and the problem in this scheme. Data have been collected from Secondary sources. Collected data were analysed using various statistical tools. Results of the study found that for higher return with low risk the investor motivates to invest in systematic investment plan on the other hand knowledge and operational platform is one of the main barrier that investor are facing of scheme.

scholarly journals CryptoKitties and the New Ludic Economy: How Blockchain Introduces Value, Ownership, and Scarcity in Digital Gaming

2020 ◽  
pp. 155541201989830 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alesja Serada ◽  
Tanja Sihvonen ◽  
J. Tuomas Harviainen
Keyword(s):  
Game Design ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Digital Gaming ◽  
Virtual Ethnography ◽  
Research Material ◽  
Financial Interest ◽  
One Year ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Observation Period

This article analyzes specific characteristics of value created through digital scarcity and blockchain-proven ownership in cryptogames. Our object of study is CryptoKitties, the first instance of a blockchain-based game that has garnered media recognition and financial interest. The objective of this article is to demonstrate the limits of scarcity in value construction for owners of CryptoKitties tokens, manifested as breedable virtual cats. Our work extends the trends set out by earlier cryptocurrency studies from the perspective of cultural studies. For the purpose of this article, we rely on open blockchain analytics such as DappRadar and Etherscan, as well as player-created analytics, backed by a one-year-long participant observation period in the said game for research material. Combining theoretical cryptocurrency and Bitcoin studies, open data analysis, and virtual ethnography enables a grounded discussion on blockchain-based game design and play.

Egypt’s slum development plan will be applied unevenly

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Development Plan ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
The Government ◽  
Policy Priority

Subject Plans to rid Egypt of its slums. Significance Since President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi came to office in June 2014, the eradication of informal settlements has officially been a top policy priority. More than 20 billion Egyptian pounds (1.2 billion dollars) has been allocated to the development and demolition of 351 slum areas since 2014. In February, Sisi pledged to rid the country of its slums by 2030. However, concerns have been raised about the lack of consultation with the communities affected. Impacts The slum redevelopment plans will drive growth in investment in the real estate and construction sectors. Public spending will increase from subsidised provision of electricity, water and sewerage services. The government will boost revenues by selling repossessed land to the private sector. Lack of consultation with residents over relocation will drive resentment among many of the poorest segments of society.

The Study of ‘Complex Society’ in the Middle East: A Review Essay

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Carl Salzman
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
The Other ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Complex Society ◽  
Primary Object ◽  
Organic Solidarity ◽  
Economic Markets ◽  
Object Of Study

Anthropologists have devoted a good deal of attention recently to what they call ‘complex society’. This rather vague concept developed in contrast with ‘primitive’ or ‘simple’ society, the small-scale, isolated, local-oriented, non- literate grouping of like social parts which anthropologists made, or fancied, their primary object of study. This is Tonnies’ gemeinschaft, held together by Durkheim's ‘mechanical solidarity.’ ‘Complex society’ on the other hand, is more similar to Tonnies’ gesellschaft, bases to some degree upon Durkheim's ‘organic solidarity’; it has many differentiated parts, ingeniously interwoven into elaborate structures, with specializations and rankings and overlappings and other imaginative complications. More and more anthropologists found themselves, whatever their original intentions, involved in studies that were manifestly of ‘complex society.’ This was the result of two developments: One was the encapsulation of most ‘simple’ societies by colonial or national societies, and the concomitant engagement with government, economic markets, and development (or under development). This encapsulation was not something completely new that happened during the course of anthropological investigation, but something which had been going on and which anthropologists ‘discovered’ and began to devote attention to. The other development was the carrying of anthropological research to the areas of the ‘great civilizations’ in East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East. In these areas, long-recorded histories, literate traditions, great states and empires, and sophisticated technologies belied the notion of ‘simple’ society, and raised embarrassing questions about classical anthropological methodology, ‘participant observation’ in a constricted area for one or two years.

scholarly journals The 2019 General Election and the Transparency Question in Nigeria: Political Party Financing As the Bane of Youth Participation

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
O Babayo Sule ◽  
Usman Sambo ◽  
Yoserizal Saragih
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
General Election ◽  
Youth Participation ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
General Elections ◽  
History Of ◽  
Campaign Expenditure ◽  
The Cost

Election is perceived as the most peaceful means of power transfer in a democratic setting. It enables for competitive struggles to secure power in a prescribed rule of the game constitutionally. Nigeria is a democratic state currently undergoing its longest democratic transition unprecedented in the history of the country where six consecutive uninterrupted General Elections were conducted. However, the major issue of concern with Nigeria’s democratisation is youth participation and exclusion from politics. A major factor behind the marginalisation of youth is linked to the transparency question in terms of party financing and money politics. This study examined critically how the process of party financing excluded Nigeria’s youth from participating in the 2019 General Election. The study used a qualitative case study method. Data were gathered from primary and secondary sources. The primary sources included an in-depth interview with relevant stakeholders in the field, direct participant observation and consultation of government’s primary documents. The secondary sources were books, journals, newspapers, reports from organisations and agencies and internet sources. The data collected were discussed and interpreted using statistical techniques of tables, charts and a model. The work discovered that youth were barred from participating in Nigeria’s 2019 General Election in terms of contesting and winning of elective seats emanating from heavy use of money in party financing and campaign expenditure. The study thus, recommends that the viable alternative for youth to participate in Nigerian politics actively is to establish parties and lower the cost of obtaining party nomination and contest.

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