1st Edition
The Political Economy of Land Rent, Financialization and Resistance
Introduction: The Political Economy of Land
Mika Hyötyläinen and Robert Beauregard
Part I: The Assetization of Land and Buildings
1. Land as a Financial Asset: The Theory of Urban Rent as a Mirror of Economic Transformation
Anne Haila
2. Land as an Asset
Erik Swyngedouw and Callum Ward
3. Buildings as Financial Assets
Renee Tapp and Rachel Weber
Part II: Rent, Real Estate, and Property Markets
4. The Risk Myth: Blackstone, Housing and Rentier Capitalism
Brett Christophers
5. The Political Economy of Abandoned Property: Structure and Agency in Land Banking Practice in Muncie, Indiana
John West
6. The Political Economy of Italian Public Real Estate Privatization: Austerity, Financialization and the "Enrichment Economy"
Félix Adisson
7. The Singapore and Hong Kong Property Markets: Lessons for the West from Successful Global Cities
Anne Haila
Part III: Land and Social Relations
8. Land Relations in Turmoil: Trans-Local Constructions of Home Among Rural Migrants to Xiamen, China
Haoxuan Sa and Jani Vuolteenaho
9. Bridging Between Owners and Users in Japan’s Private Property Regime: The Case of Farmland Banking
Maiko Nishi
10. Unauthorized Neighborhoods, Land Rent, and Working-Class Struggles in Indian Cities: The Slum Question Revisited
Sai Balakrishnan
11. Public Land as a Social Relation: The Case of East River Park in New York City
Robert Beauregard
12. Land Rent and the Struggle for the Urban Commons in Helsinki’s Suvilahti DIY Skatepark
Mika Hyötyläinen
Conclusion: A Summary from the Perspective of Rent Theory
Mika Hyötyläinen
Biography
Mika Hyötyläinen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University. His research concerns urban inequality, housing precarity, Nordic land and housing policies, and transformations in public real estate policy. He received his doctorate in 2019 from the University of Helsinki. He has published in journals such as Acme, Critical Social Policy, Geoforum, and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
Robert Beauregard is a Professor Emeritus at Columbia University where he taught in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. His most recent, authored books are Cities in the Urban Age: A Dissent (Chicago, 2018), Planning Matter: Acting with Things (Chicago, 2015), and Advanced Introduction to Planning Theory (Edward Elgar, 2020). He also co-edited Regulation and Planning (Routledge, 2021) and Planning for a Material World (Routledge, 2016).
