What’s in a Street? Exploring Suspended Cosmopolitanism in Trikoupi, Nicosia

Situated at the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, the island of Cyprus has always been a bridge as well as a border between the Middle East and Europe. It has also been an important place of both emigration and immigration. The situation in Nicosia, the capital city, is marked by decline following the 1974 conflict and partition. At the same time, however, the city has become an important settling place for international migrants, whose presence has grown during the last 20 years. Today Nicosia’s situation lies between a typical south European city (in which migrants find room in the interstices) and a post-war city. Following the growing effort within migration studies to use the street as a laboratory of diversity and cosmopolitanism (Susan Hall), this paper focuses on a single street. Formerly an important business street, Trikoupi Street is now well known as one of the most cosmopolitan streets in Nicosia, in which south Asians, Arabs, Sub-Saharan Africans as well as Eastern Europeans converge. These different populations correspond to different migratory waves as well as different modes of incorporation into local society. In this chapter, we aim to see how the street level may help us to reflect upon important topics in Cyprus such as contested citizenship, urban change, local/global connections, as well as new forms of cohabitation and patterns of subaltern cosmopolitanism. We also aim to reflect upon the multiple temporalities of the neighborhood, in order to show how the history of the street (and the history of the neighborhood) impacts on current ways of life in Trikoupi. We define the current situation as “suspended cosmopolitanism.”

Static and Dynamic Analysis of Cellular Beams

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The Neighborhood Impacts of Local Infrastructure Investment: Evidence from Urban Mexico

This paper reports on the results of a large infrastructure investment experiment in which $68 million in spending was randomly allocated across a set of low-income urban neighborhoods in Mexico. We show that the program resulted in substantial improvements in access to infrastructure and increases in private investment in housing. While a pre-committed index of social capital did not improve, we find an apparent decrease in the incidence of personal assault and teen misbehavior in neighborhoods where investments were made. The program increased the aggregate real estate value in program neighborhoods by two dollars for every dollar invested. (JEL H76, O18, R23, R31, R53, Z13)

Neighborhood Impacts of the Foreclosure Crisis

Near universal homeownership has been a cornerstone of neoliberal urban policy. However, policies that concentrate on making mortgage credit available rather than affordable precipitated the financial crisis and ensured that the most vulnerable populations, ethnic minorities and lower income groups, suffered the most from the collapse of the housing market in late 2007. Because of a prevalence of expensive subprime loans, Black and Latino neighborhoods suffered the highest levels of foreclosure filings and REOs in Chicago. A tightening of credit policies after the crisis also disproportionally affected Blacks and Latinos. The dynamics of the foreclosure crisis indicates that credit markets favoring expensive but easy mortgage loans are not a substitute for government intervention to face housing challenges in global cities.

Foreclosed and Sold: An Examination of Community and Property Characteristics Related to the Sale of REO Properties

Foreclosure affects not only the foreclosing homeowner but also the surrounding residential neighborhood. Prior work has found that the negative neighborhood impacts of foreclosed properties that remain as real-estate-owned (REO) properties persist until the property is resold. Furthermore, negative neighborhood price externalities are more substantial the longer a home spends in REO stock. This article used foreclosure data from Dallas County, Texas, to examine how both housing and neighborhood characteristics are related to the possibility of the sale of a foreclosed property out of REO stock. The findings from the Cox proportional hazard model indicate that homes in low-income minority neighborhoods and homes with property characteristics associated with a need for more preventative maintenance were slower to sell. Results have the potential to provide insight into how housing and neighborhood characteristics might help to explain part of the uneven geographic distribution of foreclosure impacts following the 2007–2009 financial recession.