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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795302603321

Autore

Shatkin Gavin

Titolo

Cities for profit : the real estate turn in Asia's urban politics / / Gavin Shatkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5017-1113-X

1-5017-0971-2

9781501709906

9781501711138

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

333.3095/091732

Soggetti

Real estate development - Government policy - Asia

Real estate investment - Government policy - Asia

Land use, Urban - Government policy - Asia

City planning - Asia

Urban policy - Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Real Estate Turn in Asia's Urban Politics -- 1. Origins and Consequences of the Real Estate Turn -- 2. Comparing State Agendas of Land Monetization -- 3. Planned Grab -- 4. Experiments in Power -- 5. Chongqing -- Conclusion. -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Cities for Profit examines the phenomenon of urban real estate megaprojects in Asia-massive, privately built planned urban developments that have captured the imagination of politicians, policymakers, and citizens across the region. These controversial projects, embraced by elites, occasion massive displacement and have extensive social and economic impacts. Gavin Shatkin finds commonalities and similarities in dozens of such projects in Jakarta, Kolkata, and Chongqing. Shatkin is at the vanguard of urban studies in



his focus on real estate. Just as cities are increasingly defined and remapped according to the value of the land under their residents' feet, the lives of city dwellers are shaped and constrained by their ability to keep up with rising costs of urban life. Scholars and policy and planning professionals alike will benefit from Shatkin's comprehensive research. Cities for Profit contains insights from more than 150 interviews, site visits to projects, and data from government and nongovernmental organization reports and data, urban plans, architectural renderings, annual reports and promotional materials of developers, and newspaper and other media accounts.