Ups and Downs of Urban Governance

Lippert, Randy K.; Steckle, Rhys

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“…We are still coming to terms with the character and significance of common‐interest developments. These are a distinctive form of housing tenure, one with its own forms and challenges of governance both for residents and for host municipalities (Webster ; Harris ; Low et al ; Easthope ; Lasner ; Lippert ; Lippert and Steckle ; McKenzie , 126–127). How these play out in detail, however, remains unclear.…”

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The changing place of condominiums across a metropolitan area, 1970–2015

Harris

Rose

2019

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Key Messages• High-rise, downtown condominiums have been studied separately from suburban projects, while midsized urban centres have been neglected. • Suburban condominiums have been as common as their better-known downtown cousins, in part because more profitable than rental housing. • Condominiums, new and converted, are a prominent feature of mid-sized urban centres such as Hamilton, Ontario, and not only of major metro areas.By definition, all condominiums share social features and challenges of governance, but they have inspired two separate narratives: as suburban, often gated, communities and as downtown high-rises or conversions. In Canada, as elsewhere, research has focused on large urban areas, neglecting subtly different dynamics in smaller centres. The purpose of this case study of mid-sized Hamilton, Ontario, was to assess whether and how those dynamics are different across a whole metro area, using newspapers and building permit data. It tracks the changing place of condo developments and conversions across Hamilton since 1970. For decades, most developments were suburban town (row) houses; since 2000, downtown revival has included conversions and taller, new-build projects. It argues that early developments and conversions reflected a "value gap" in relation to purpose-built rental apartments. Led by a migrant arts community, recent centralization has exploited an inner-city "rent gap," coupled with a popular reassessment of urban living. La place changeante des condominiums dans une région métropolitaine, 1970-2015 Tous les condominiums présentent des caractéristiques particulières et soulèvent des défis de d'intégration urbaine. Cependant, on retrouve généralement deux types distincts d'implantation, soit au sein des communautés banlieusardes, souvent avec accès protégés, soit comme immeubles en hauteur ou convertis au centre-ville. L'objectif de la présente étude de cas, réalisée à Hamilton en Ontario, est d'évaluer si et comment ces dynamiques propres aux très grandes agglomérations sont différentes dans une région métropolitaine de taille moyenne en utilisant les données provenant des journaux et des permis de construire. Ainsi, cette recherche fait le suivi de la place changeante des développements et des conversions de condos à Hamilton depuis 1970. Pendant des décennies, la plupart des développements de ce type étaient des maisons en rangées en banlieue. Or, depuis 2000, la revitalisation du centre-ville a inclus des projets de conversions et de nouveaux édifices plus hauts. Nous soutenons ici que les premiers développements et les premières conversions de condos reflétaient un « fossé de valeurs » par rapport aux résidents des logements construits à des fins de location. The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien 2020, 64(2): 294-309Pour sa part, la centralisation récente, dirigée par une communauté artistique migrante, a plutôt exploité l'idée d'un « manque de loyers » dans les quartiers centraux afin de légitimer sa présence, le tout combiné à la rhétorique d'un regain d'intérêt po...

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The changing place of condominiums across a metropolitan area, 1970–2015

Harris

Rose

2019

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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“…Examples of such elite captures of urban institutions abound, especially in places with high degrees of social privilege like highly gentrified neighborhoods or affluent suburbs. We see elite captures, for example, in the classed and racialized politics of exclusionary zoning in five US cities (Cashin, 2021); extreme engineering for luxury property development in London (Burrows et al, 2021), Jakarta (Liong et al, 2020), or Hong Kong (Ho and Yip, 2023); subversion of planning institutions by the real estate industry in Athens (Alexandri, 2018), New York (Stein, 2019), Hong Kong (Aveline-Dubac and Balndeau, 2019), and Toronto (Lippert, 2019); displacements for elite real estate development in Rio de Janeiro (Gaffney, 2016), Atlanta (Raymond et al, 2021), and Guangzhou (Kan, 2020); or the hyper-segregated enclaves of the super-rich across global cities in east and southeast Asia, the Gulf States, North America, and western Europe (Forrest et al, 2017).…”

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Elite capture and urban geography: Analyzing geographies of privilege

Lauermann,

Mallak

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Many cities have a two-tiered system for governing land: one set of rules for most people, and a different set for elite investors, large developers, and others who can bend, circumvent, or lobby against the rules. This reflects elite capture of urban institutions, as institutions are subverted to benefit special interests. We argue elite capture plays a systemic role in 21st century urban political economy. We review recent scholarship on four kinds of elite capture practices—rent seeking, opportunity hoarding, exploiting loopholes, and co-opting participatory planning—and illustrate them with a discussion of recent gentrification research.

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Ups and Downs of Urban Governance

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The changing place of condominiums across a metropolitan area, 1970–2015

The changing place of condominiums across a metropolitan area, 1970–2015

Elite capture and urban geography: Analyzing geographies of privilege

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