《Land Redevelopment and the Built Environment in Third-Wave Cities: Review and Synthesis》

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JOURNAL OF URBAN TECHNOLOGY,Vol.26,Issue1,P.57-81
语言
英文
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Built environment; financialization; land-use change; third-wave cities; urban redevelopment; POLITICAL-ECONOMY; URBAN GOVERNANCE; GENTRIFICATION; CITY; FINANCIALIZATION; STATE; FINANCIALISATION; TRANSFORMATION; ARCHITECTURE; INVESTMENT
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[Scott, Allen J.] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Geog, 1255 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA. [Scott, Allen J.] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Publ Policy, 1255 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA. Scott, AJ (reprint author), Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Geog, 1255 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA.; Scott, AJ (reprint author), Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Publ Policy, 1255 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA. E-Mail: ajscott@ucla.edu
摘要
I seek to synthesize several different approaches to issues of urban land redevelopment and the built environment. The essay focuses on developments in the third and current historical wave of capitalist development. I describe the economic logic of land-use change with reference to both commercial and residential property. This logic has become intimately intertwined with global finance and this state of affairs has introduced new elements of fluidity and risk into the built environment. Issues of urban policy and the role of municipal authorities in shaping urban land markets are then considered. I describe how local government agencies increasingly pursue development projects in complex partnerships with representatives of the real-estate industry. In the second half of the paper, the overall argument is recast by reference to three important trends in regard to land-redevelopment and the built environment in third-wave cities, namely, the economic and architectural renaissance of central business districts, the widespread gentrification of inner-city neighborhoods, and the emergence of a new post-suburban phase of peripheral urban expansion.