What is it about?
This paper develops a Historical Institutionalist analysis of urbanization processes and urban property and planning.
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Why is it important?
Urbanization processes are generative not only of differing urban forms and collections of city fabric and investments, but also are generative of different institutions and capacities. The sets of property that are created can be expected to produce important self-reinforcing influences on the actors and institutions that created them, and enduring patterns not only of urban space, but also enduring urban institutions and distributions of wealth/inequality.
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The production of urban space is one of the most important processes of the 21st century, that is certain to have long-lasting impacts on cities and the quality of life of residents. This paper argues that the process of urbanization generates lasting urban institutions that are consequential for the distribution of wealth and access to housing, and also are likely to be enduring.
Professor Andre Sorensen
University of Toronto
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This page is a summary of: Institutions and Urban Space: Land, Infrastructure, and Governance in the Production of Urban Property, Planning Theory & Practice, December 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2017.1408136.
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