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作者

Sophie Elsmore

来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.41,Issue3,P.389-408

语言

英文

关键字

Urban development,property developers,development contributions,land-use regulation

作者单位

Department of Urban, Environment and Leisure Studies, London South Bank University , London, UK

摘要

Deliberations over property development are often typified by caricatures of the process, its actors and outcomes, with the process generally portrayed as a “development game” with planners and developers occupying opposing position. Drawing upon an examination of developers engagement with development contributions in the London Borough of Southwark, this paper draws attention to how they assume responsibility for mitigating the impacts of their developments. By exploring developers’ understandings of, attitudes toward, and interactions with development contributions, it examines how developers respond to and reflect upon this mode of intervention. It argues that the attitudes and actions of developers are neither technical or value free, but shaped by partialities that necessitate the conceptualization of the political role of developers. Whilst developers inevitably conceptualize development contributions as financial costs, they ascribe a wider set of values to these contributions, mobilizing them to serve their own interests, often revolving around building reputational capital. KEYWORDS: Urban developmentproperty developersdevelopment contributionsland-use regulation Acknowledgments I would like to thank the editor and three anonymous reviewers for their constructive and informative reviews. Thank you to Tuna Tasan-Kok, Sam Johnson-Schlee and Christine Barnes for their feedback on earlier drafts, along with feedback from a special session on New Investment Landscapes at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, 2018. Disclosure statement No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author. Additional informationFundingThis project received financial support from the Economic and Social Research Council (ES/H016767/1).