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Book SynopsisBy attending to the divergent forces and actors involved in property development in different geopolitical contexts, The Speculative City illustrates both the novelty and historical continuity of urbanization in the twentieth-first century.
Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction: Financialization, Speculation, and the Production of the Urban Built Environment Cecilia L. Chu and Shenjing He Section I. Mega Projects and Speculative Urban Development 1 Property Speculation: Causes and Consequences Susan Fainstein and Johannes Novy 2 The Financialization of Urban Redevelopment: Speculation and Public Land in Porto Maravilha, Rio de Janeiro Mayra Mosciaro, Alvaro Pereira, and Manuel B. Aalbers 3 From Spectacular to Speculative Gulf Cities: A Tale of Dubai and Doha Ali A. Alraouf Section II. Reconfiguring the State: The Politics and Pragmatics of Speculation 4 Mega-Event Urbanism and the Politics of Speculative Urban Development in Shanghai Yunpeng Zhang and Shenjing He 5 Urbanization as Mass Speculative Event: Informal Finance and City-Making in Ordos, Inner Mongolia Max D. Woodworth 6 El Quiñón: Corruption and Speculative Development in the Spanish Financial Crisis Marta Catalán Eraso and Cecilia L. Chu Section III. Forms and Norms of Speculative Housing 7 Speculation in the London Housing Market: Flat Break-Ups, Loft Conversions, and Overseas Buyers Chris Hamnett 8 Speculative Subdivision of Private Rental Flats in Hong Kong Mandy Lau 9 Contradictions of State and Household Investments in Public Housing in Singapore Chua Beng Huat Afterword Alan Smart List of Contributors Index
