Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City

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Urbanizing Suburbia

Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City

Edited by: Tahl Kaminer , Leonard Ma and Helen Runting

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2023

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Urbanizing Suburbia considers three current and related processes underway in global cities: the hyper-gentrification of inner cities, the financialization of housing, and the structural changes occurring in the outer city. Rocketing housing prices have displaced residents from inner cities and created a rent gap in outer cities. Increasingly, municipalities, developers, and displaced residents search for opportunities in the suburban belts. Changes in demographics, densities, live/work ratios, and tenures are remaking outer cities, rendering them less and less suburban. The book examines these changes by looking at four key European cities: Amsterdam, Berlin, London, and Stockholm. It is a first attempt at understanding the three processes discussed here within one comprehensive explanatory framework.

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Tahl Kaminer is a Reader in Architectural History and Theory at Cardiff University. He is the author of The Efficacy of Architecture (2017) and Architecture, Crisis and Resuscitation (2011), and editor of the anthologies Urban Asymmetries (2011), Critical Tools (2011) and Houses in Transformation (2008).

Leonard Ma is a Canadian architect based in Helsinki. He is a member of New Academy, and teaches Urban Studies and Architecture at the Estonian Academy of Art. His research focuses on neoliberalism, financialization, and the legacy of the welfare state, and has been published in e-flux architecture, The Avery Review, Drawing Matter and AA files. Leonard is a practicing architect and leads PUBLIC OFFICE, with projects and competition awards in Austria, Finland, Japan and Sweden.

Helen Runting is a planner and architectural theorist, as well as a founding partner of the Stockholm-based architecture office Secretary. She holds a PhD in Critical Studies in Architecture (KTH) and regularly publishes essays on the politics of design. Runting is a co-author of the prize-winning 14,495 Flats: A Metabolist’s Guide to New Stockholm (2021) and a co-editor of the anthology Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies (2018).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	2
CONDITIONS AND PROCESSES
Suburbia Transfigured Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	6
On the Edge: Suburbia, Disturbia, Futurbia Jennifer S. Mack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	24
Fifth-Wave Gentrification and the Financialization of Housing Manuel B. Aalbers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	46
Ⅰ. AMSTERDAM eds.
“Creative” Regeneration and the Dissipation of Amsterdam’s Suburbs Tahl Kaminer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	64
The View from the City: Amsterdam Noord, Self-Build, and Broedplaats Paco Bunnik and Tahl Kaminer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
The View from the City: Vision 2050 and the Nieuw-West Flora Nycolaas and Tahl Kaminer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	89
Rolling Out the Center: The Temporary Use of Tolhuistuin in Longer-Term Urban Development in Amsterdam Noord Timothy Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	96
Ⅱ. BERLIN
Culture in the Trenches: Housing and Resistance in Berlin Maroš Krivý and Leonard Ma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	114
Hufeisensiedlung as Financialized World Heritage Anne Kockelkorn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	134
Theorizing Gentrification from Berlin Matthias Bernt, Maroš Krivý and Leonard Ma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	141
The Question Is No Longer Whether to Expropriate, but Why It Hasn’t Happened Yet Katalin Gennburg, Maroš Krivý and Leonard Ma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	155
Playing Our Match to Win Battles All Over the World Berta Del Ben, Jenny Stupka, Maroš Krivý and Leonard Ma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	164
Ⅲ. LONDON
The Transformation of London’s Outer City Tahl Kaminer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	174
Housing and Social Change in Outer London Paul Watt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	190
From Inclusive Legacy Promises to Exclusive Realities: Planning, Design, and Displacement in Post-Olympic East London Juliet Davis and Penny Bernstock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	212
The Normalization of Thamesmead: Part A Tahl Kaminer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	235
Ⅳ. STOCKHOLM
Welcome to New Stockholm: Soft Tactics and Hard Change in the Outer City Helen Runting, Rutger Sjögrim and Karin Matz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	244
Postage-Stamp Planning Sara Vall and Helen Runting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	270
Neon Lights SIFAV Maryam Fanni and Elof Hellström Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	280
South of the South in Venice of the North: Theorizing Change in Hökarängen Helen Runting, Rutger Sjögrim and Karin Matz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	288
MAPPINGS
Integrating Amsterdam Noord Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	304
Cultural Assets in Schöneweide Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	312
The Normalization of Thamesmead: Part B Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	320
South of the South in Venice of the North: Mapping Change in Hökarängen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	328
Other Narratives: Reading Sub/Urban Theory Differently Ross Exo Adams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	336
Contributing Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	348
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	351

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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

June 19, 2023

eBook ISBN:

9783868598735

Paperback published on:

June 19, 2023

Paperback ISBN:

9783868597622

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

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352

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70 farb. u. s/w Abb.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783868598735

eBook ISBN: 9783868598735

Paperback ISBN: 9783868597622

Keywords for this book

hypergentrification; suburbia; super-gentrification; Berlin housing; Amsterdam Noord; Post-Olympic East-London; Thamesmead; Stockholm Middle Ring

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Architects, urban planners, sociologists, political sciences, city adminitrations

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