Cities for Profit: The Real Estate Turn in Asia's Urban Politics
Cities for Profit: The Real Estate Turn in Asia's Urban Politics
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Abstract
In the past three decades, urban real estate megaprojects—massive, master planned, for profit urban developments—have captured the imagination of politicians and policy-makers across Asia. This book argues that state actors have been major drivers of these transformative projects, and have realized them through increasingly aggressive efforts to reclaim or acquire land, and to transfer land rights to corporate developers. State actors have specifically sought to monetize land as a strategy of state empowerment, a means to generate budget revenue, distribute patronage, and drive economic growth. This newly assertive state role in land markets constitutes the real estate turn in urban politics in the subtitle of the book. This real estate turn has significant implications for social, political, and ecological change in these societies. The book explores the varied spatial impacts of this real estate turn in three cities—Jakarta, Kolkata, and Chongqing—that differ in their systems of property rights and urban governance.
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Front Matter
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Introduction: The Real Estate Turn in Asia’s Urban Politics
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Origins and Consequences of the Real Estate Turn
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Comparing State Agendas of Land Monetization
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Planned Grab: Capitalizing on Land Dualism in New Order Jakarta
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Experiments in Power: Urban Politics in Postliberalization Kolkata
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Chongqing: The State Capitalist Growth Machine
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Conclusion: Interpreting the Theoretical and Practical Implications of the Real Estate Turn
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End Matter
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