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Book Talk on 15 March 2024, 3pm-4pm (CET) - The Urban Empire of Finance: Power and Inequalities in Asset Management Capitalism
🌆 The Urban Empire of Finance: Power and Inequalities in Asset Management Capitalism 🗓️ Date & Time: Friday, 15 March 2024, 3pm-4pm...
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Feb 14, 20241 min read
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2021/11/19 Valuing the City Symposium
A full-day symposium on the occasion of the publication of Built Up: An Historical Perspective on the Contemporary Principles and...
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Nov 10, 20212 min read
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2021/11/29 – Susan Soederberg “Governing Urban Displacements in Global Capitalism”
Register for free here The scarcity of affordable rental housing has become a defining social issue with an increasing number of...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
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2021/10/25 – Zac Taylor “Urbanizing Climate Finance: Tracing the Insurance-linked Securi
Register for free here Insurance-linked securities (ILS) and related property catastrophe reinsurance market instruments are increasingly...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
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2021/09/27 – Rex A. McKenzie “Wealth Chain Property Investment in the hinterland – Evidence from the Merseyside area in the Northwest of England
Register for free here In this paper, we estimate and evaluate the scale and impact of wealth chain investment coming from offshore...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
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2021/06/17- FinGeo – Financial Geographies of Regional and Urban Recovery
• SS34 I FINGEO. Financial Policies Thursday, 17 June 2021, 9:00 – 11:00 BST • SS34 II FINGEO. Financial Networks Thursday, 17 June 2021,...
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May 25, 20212 min read
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2021/06/29 – Shenjing He “Loft-living under state-led financialisation: Adaptive reuse o
Register for free here (Regional Studies Association) Loft-living under state-led financialisation: Adaptive reuse of industrial...
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Apr 20, 20212 min read
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2021/05/18 – Yanpeng Jiang “The financialization of Chinese cities and the role of urban investment and development companies
Register for free here (Regional Studies Association) The financialisation of Chinese cities and the role of urban investment and...
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Apr 20, 20213 min read
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2021/05/04 – Markus Hesse “The Urban Geography of Luxembourg’s Financial Centre”
Register for free here (Regional Studies Association) Open the fortress! When financial centre and urban development collide – the case...
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Apr 20, 20212 min read
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The pandemic city (by Martin Sokol)
The Covid-19 pandemic has reignited debates about the future of cities. Optimists hope that – in response to the pandemic – our cities...
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Apr 16, 20213 min read
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2020/10/31 – Call for papers: AAG 2021 Seattle + virtual “Real Estate, Finance and Urban
Please find below four sessions on real estate (incl. housing), finance and urban development at the American Association of Geographers...
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Oct 28, 202013 min read
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Lecturer (Research) in Geospatial analysis of access to urban amenities – Deadline: 30/05/2020
To apply by 30 May 2020, please see full job description here: https://jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-ZAP-vacature-enkel-tenure-track/598241401/
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Apr 29, 20201 min read
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2019/04 – Washington, DC – Paper Sessions Annual Meeting of the American Association of the American Association of Geographers (AAG)
Paper session proposal for the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG)–Washington D.C., April, 2019 Session...
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Oct 16, 20188 min read
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The Increasing Financialization of China’s Urbanization
– Thierry Theurillat, James H. Lenzer Jr. & Hongyu Zhan – Mainland China is well known for its massive and rampant urban development,...
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Jul 7, 20172 min read
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Financial Circuits: Cyclicality, Leakiness and Social Housing Finance in Ireland and Denmark
– Michael Byrne and Michelle Norris – Denmark and Ireland are both small, open economies and both countries experienced housing bubbles...
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Jul 6, 20174 min read
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Research Associate – Finance and Geography – School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford
We are seeking to appoint a Research Associate to work on the project ‘Cities in Global Financial Networks: Financial and Business...
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Mar 27, 20172 min read
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2017/04/03 – 2017/04/04 – Cambridge, USA – FinGeo Workshop and the 2nd FinGeo Global Seminar at MIT – Finance, Geography and Sustainability: Lessons for Urban Planning, Development and Beyond
Organised by: Janelle Knox-Hayes (MIT), Martin Sokol (Trinity College Dublin), Dariusz Wójcik (Oxford) Please register here : The series...
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Mar 21, 20172 min read
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