scholarly journals Real estate development outside the city county of Nairobi and the escalation of urban sprawl: Could developers be avoiding zoning-related costs in the city?

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 261-272
Author(s):  
N Ayonga Jeremiah
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Real Estate Development ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Urban Growth, Real Estate Development and Indigenous Property: Simulating the Expansion Process in the City of Temuco, Chile

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Francisco Maturana ◽  
Mauricio Morales ◽  
Fernando Peña-Cortés ◽  
Marco A. Peña ◽  
Carlos Vielma
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Objective Evaluation ◽  
Real Estate Development ◽  
Territorial Planning ◽  
The Future ◽  
Urban Scenario ◽  
The City

Urbanization is spreading across the world and beyond metropolitan areas. Medium-sized cities have also undergone processes of accelerated urban expansion, especially in Latin America, thanks to scant regulation or a complete lack thereof. Thus, understanding urban growth in the past and simulating it in the future has become a tool to raise its visibility and challenge territorial planners. In this work, we use Markov chains, cellular automata, multi-criteria multi-objective evaluation, and the determination of land use/land cover (LULC) to model the urban growth of the city of Temuco, Chile, a paradigmatic case because it has experienced powerful growth, where real estate development pressures coexist with a high natural value and the presence of indigenous communities. The urban scenario is determined for the years 2033 and 2049 based on the spatial patterns between 1985 and 2017, where the model shows the trend of expansion toward the northeast and significant development in the western sector of the city, making them two potential centers of expansion and conflict in the future given the heavy pressure on lands that are indigenous property and have a high natural value, aspects that need to be incorporated into future territorial planning instruments.

Behavior of land markets and restrictions on housing access in Buenos Aires between 2003 and 2013

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 538-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Baer ◽  
Mark Kauw
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Real Estate Development ◽  
Land Markets ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
The City

Purpose This paper aims to understand the paradoxal development in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where economic growth was not accompanied by improved housing access. The period between the years 2003 and 2013 was characterized by a sustained economic growth with social inclusion and a great expansion of both social and private housing supply in the cities of Argentina. However, this growth was not accompanied by an improvement in the overall access to land and housing. On the contrary, the habitation problems in terms of access to formal, environmentally safe and well-located land with decent facilities have worsened. The City of Buenos Aires is one of the places where this paradox is most manifested. Design/methodology/approach The functioning of the land markets and the real estate development in Buenos Aires will be analyzed in the period 2003-2013 in relation to the macroeconomic context, the monetary effort for the acquisition and rent of a formal dwelling and certain logics of urban development. Findings The rhythm of urban land valorization continuously surpassed that of other commodities and services. The expansion of residential production did not improve the access to formal housing. On the contrary, habitation issues have worsened and conflicts concerning access to land, housing and the city have rapidly increased since 2003. Originality/value In a Latin American context, this paper is the first to establish a conceptual relationship based on empirical data between land price dynamics and real estate development. The paper is also original in its identification of a change in valorization rhythm and pattern of real estate development in the past decade (2003-2013).

scholarly journals The Impact of the Real Estate Crisis on a South European Metropolis: From Urban Diffusion to Reurbanisation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimiliano Crisci
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

AbstractBeginning in the 1970s, the urban core of the Rome Metropolitan Area (RMA) experienced four decades of intense depopulation and urban diffusion, which caused a considerable social impact. On the basis of an original dataset on residential mobility within the city of Rome, this paper aims to show that the RMA is currently experiencing a new stage of reurbanisation resulting from the bursting of the housing bubble after the 2008 crisis. Unlike other European contexts, the RMA repopulation is lacking forms of “urban resurgence” and is taking place in one of the most difficult periods of the city’s recent history. Paradoxically, the trend of private real estate market succeeded to stop urban sprawl where for a long time public decision-maker had failed. This created an opportunity to finally govern the process and steadily halt the urban diffusion, implementing targeted residential densification measures aimed at stabilising the demographic recovery of the urban core and preventing a return to urban sprawl.

scholarly journals Modern Transformations in the Urban Social Structure in Muscat City

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Belgacem Mokhtar
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
The Social ◽  
Residential Quarters ◽  
Social Amenities ◽  
The City ◽  
Official Data

This study intends to gauge the framework of factors and mechanisms that contributed to the restructuring of social setup of Greater Muscat and the thereof ensuing economic, social and environmental disparities between the different residential quarters of the city. In order to produce an approximated model of the old and contemporary social structure of the city, the study used field surveys, interviews, real-estate values and types of housing, in addition to available official data. The study demonstrates clearly that locational criteria of the distribution of households in urban space have shifted from the traditional social values and practices towards predominantly economic estimates that are governed by the environmental comparative advantage of the site, the location attributes, the social content and the level of social amenities. As a result, socio-spatial fragmentation became very conspicuous in the urban space. The study suggests a number of recommendations as regarding urban sprawl, real-estate speculation, gated communities, and the renovation and rehabilitation of deteriorating residential quarters. 

scholarly journals La modernización de Puerto Vallarta ¿Renovación urbana o turistificación asistida?

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 831-842
Author(s):  
Maria de los Angeles Huízar Sanchéz ◽  
◽  
Jorge Luis López Ramos ◽  
José Alfonso Baños Francia ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Mixed Type ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Real Estate Development ◽  
Real Estate Developers ◽  
The City

In recent years, the authorities of Puerto Vallarta have embarked on an urban regeneration pro‑ cess that allows real estate developers to excessively build apartments for tourism purposes, as evidence by the current situation in two of the iconic places in the destination: The Romantic Zone and Marina Vallarta. The objective of the work is to analyze the touristification process that the city faces as a result of real estate development and the transformation of housing and commerce in these areas. The study is of a mixed type and includes discourses about the modernization of the city and the perception of residents in local newspa‑ pers, the results of which show the accelerated process of touristification facing the city.

scholarly journals Analysis of the real estate market in the city of Lublin (Poland) from the perspective of spatial development

2020 ◽  
Vol 171 ◽  
pp. 02007
Author(s):  
Patrycja Pochwatka
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
Real Property ◽  
Luxury Goods ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Real Estate Market ◽  
The City

Real estate, in modern times, is exclusive merchandise, because it is in limited supply and is relatively high-priced compared with goods such as food, clothing, luxury goods. Properly conducted spatial planning can bring measurable benefits to both citizens and investors. This study aims to explore the directions of spatial development in the city of Lublin through an analysis of undeveloped properties sold over a study period of twenty-one months. The main objective of the study was to assess the conditions of spatial development in the city. Data from the Register of Prices and Values for Real Estates were analyzed and visualized cartographically. The number of sales of real property located on the outskirts of the city was far larger than for property situated in the central part of the area studied. During the analyzed period, a total area of 0.8895 km2 of land was sold in Lublin, which represents about 0.6% of the entire city area. Vast areas were sold in the districts located on the outskirts. Unsurprisingly, the smallest percentage of land was sold in the central part of the city. The trends observed on the undeveloped real estate market are helpful in assessing the level of suburbanization or urban-sprawl. Besides, the usefulness of cartographic methods for real estate market studies was stressed.

scholarly journals Los Angeles : The Architecture and Urban Design of Nontradition

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Figura Lange ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Real Estate Development ◽  
City Development ◽  
East Los Angeles ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Acceptance ◽  
Personal Histories ◽  
The City

Past urban planners, real estate speculators and myth makers have achieved the fantasy city of the future in Los Angeles. Based on the public dream of individualism and the desire for space, Los Angeles is a city inspired and created not by history but by future endeavors, speculative gestures, unlimited possibilities and fantasy. Rising from an agricultural village it has attained metropolis status through industries that promote and depend on myth; real estate development, tourism, film. Los Angeles has become the city it dreamed of being; a future city without historic connections and foundations. Without a sense of community, reality became image. The simultaneous development of the automobile and airplane fueled the growth and pattern of urban evolution in Los Angeles. Populated by individuals escaping their personal histories in the mid-west and east, Los Angeles became a city of newness with a civic lust for the new and a general acceptance that new is better. This lead to city development without historic precedent, and a reliance on technology, first the automobile and airplane, later the computer. In the end the city resembles suburbia infinitum, a city of nowhere, without a center, egalitarian and without hierarchy. Over this pragmatic patterning lies the concern for architects today; to work from within to create a sense of place without responding to the historical models, but developing an event from fragments, estrangement and loss of connectivity.

Residential experiences in times of shifting housing regimes in Istanbul

2020 ◽  
pp. 167-190
Author(s):  
Zeynep Enlil ◽  
İclal Dinçer
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Real Estate Development ◽  
Housing Rights ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

This chapter examines changing housing regimes in Istanbul. It analyses two forms of self-building that emerged as solutions improvised by people in response to the pressing housing need and became predominant modes of housing production since the 1950s, namely “gecekondu,” and “yap-sat” or “build-and-sell.” Although stimulated by governments for some decades, both of these self-regulated housing forms came to a point of expulsion under the new regime of capital accumulation based on aggressive real-estate development that has been adopted as part of neoliberal urban policies in Turkey since the 2000s. The frenzy for urban transformation accompanied by financialization of housing led to further commodification of housing and urban space, undermining the right to decent and affordable housing and quality urban space for every citizen, which gave rise to considerable dissent that culminated in the emergence of new urban movements in defence of housing rights and ‘right to the city.’

Life in Ruins: Materiality, the City, and the Production of Critique in the Art of Naiza Khan

2015 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-346
Author(s):  
Karin Zitzewitz
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Real Estate Development ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Naiza Khan'sThe Manora Archive(2007–), the product of her long-term engagement with a small island in Karachi's harbor, is exemplary of both Pakistan's vibrant contemporary art and its burgeoning discourse of urban space. Dominated by a naval base and port rejuvenation project, nearly all of Manora's civilian population was bought out by investors in 2006 for a now-abandoned real estate development. Khan has recorded the island's abandoned architecture in photographs and video, documenting its descent into ruins. Her visual archive, which also includes drawings, prints, and paintings based on the photographs, presents Manora's ruins as metonymic of Karachi's colonial and postcolonial histories. This article makes two interlocking claims: first, that Khan's artistic work supplements scholarship on the relationship between violence and urban development by highlighting issues of temporality and bodily experience, and, second, that her work productively exploits the tension between the documentary mode and more traditional artistic media.

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