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Metropolis, Money and Markets: Brazilian Urban Financialization in Times of Re-emerging Global Finance book cover

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Metropolis, Money and Markets Brazilian Urban Financialization in Times of Re-emerging Global Finance

By Jeroen Klink Copyright 2020
224 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book explores the impact of finance on urban spaces as well as cities' role in the social constitution and dissemination of financial logistics and techniques. It brings together literature from different disciplinary areas to increase our understanding of financialization. It observes how non-financial members of society, such as public bureaucrats, urban planners, the media and so... Read more

Introduction

1 A conceptual primer on (urban) financialization

2 State spaces, financialization of cities and the urbanization of finance in the Global South

3 State spaces, urban rents and finance in the Brazilian development trajectory

4 Planning, projects and profitability: The role of financial and institutional devices in the urbanization of finance

5 On contested water governance and the making of urban financialization: Exploring the case of metropolitan

São Paulo, Brazil

6 Building within the limits? A closer look at the “My House, My Life” Program in the outskirts of metropolitan São Paulo

7 On reframing the capital market–austerity nexus and the emerging governance of urban securitization

Conclusion

Index

Biography

Jeroen Klink is a Dutch economist who works as a professor of economics and urban planning at the Universidade Federal do ABC (São Paulo, Brazil). He has published several books and papers on metropolitan governance, economic restructuring in cities and the role of finance.

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