David Wachsmuth
Biographic Data
| ID | 240939 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Wachsmuth |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Wachsmuth |
| SIGNATURE | WACHSMUTH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5689-9527 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 972 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Critical Reconstruction Theory and the invention of post-disaster response
No comprehensive theory of reconstruction currently exists. This hinders scholars’ capacity to anticipate patterns, as well as practitioners’ possibilities to evaluate alternatives, design equitable recovery processes and implement appropriate policies. The presented analysis of the pertinent literature over 50 years shows that the notion of reconstruction has been reified in different ways. This constant reinvention of post-disaster response mob…
Housing versus home sharing: The causal impact of short-term rental regulation on residential rents
What is the relationship between short-term rental (STR) activity, STR regulations and residential rents? Using the staggered introduction of principal-residence restrictions in Canadian urban areas, we estimate the causal impact of STRs on rents in a time-varying difference-in-differences model. We find that principal-residence regulations that reduce STR activity cause rents to decline in subsequent years, demonstrating that STR activity increa…
The motivations and practices of commercial short-term rental operators in the short-term/long-term “regulatory gap”
Despite the rapid proliferation of short-term rentals (STRs) over the last decade, research contacting commercial operators to explore their business practices, motivations, and attitudes remains rare. Leveraging a comprehensive dataset of STR activity in Montreal alongside key-informant interviews, this study presents an in-depth portrait of commercial STR operators. We find that the experience of commercially operating STRs is marked by contrad…
High Rises and Housing Stress: A Spatial Big Data Analysis of Rental Housing Financialization
Problem, research strategy, and findings The financialization of housing is a rapidly growing concern for planning researchers and policymakers, but the opacity of property ownership in most cities has hampered efforts to rigorously measure the phenomenon. Here we introduce a new approach based on big data methods. By combining web scraping of property assessment, business registry, and rental advertisement data, we reliably identified the networ…
Th anniversary of Territory, Politics, Governance: Achievements and prospects
Ten years ago, the founding Editor-in-Chief of Territory, Politics, Governance, Professor John Agnew, published an editorial in the inaugural issue of this journal. Launched by the Regional Studies Association, and enabled and supported by fellow editors and the publishing team, the vision of the journal was set out clearly and concisely: ‘The intersection between the three words in the journal’s name defines the central purpose of the journal: t…
Airbnb, le partage du logement et le droit au logement à Montréal
La prolifération des locations à court terme, ainsi que les entreprises qui les supportent, ont suscité de nombreux débats houleux dans un nombre croissant de villes concernant l’usage approprié des propriétés résidentielles. Sont-elles des actifs pouvant être convertis à un usage plus rentable en tant que logement touristique, ou s’agit-il de logements pour les résidents locaux ? Cet article analyse le cas de Montréal et constate que les bénéfic…
The Covid-19 pandemic: Territorial, political and governance dimensions of the crisis
As editors of Territory, Politics, Governance, we want first and foremost to express our solidarity with those affected and impacted directly by the COVID-19 pandemic. While none of us is untouched by the current public health crisis, what has unfolded thus far reveals only too clearly the inbuilt inequalities of contemporary capitalist society in terms of mortality, illness and recovery (for a pre-COVID-19 discussion of the United States, see Ca…
Why does everyone think cities can save the planet
This article identifies and explains an underlying transition in global urban policy and discourse from the city as a sustainability problem to the city as a sustainability solution. We argue that contemporary policy discourses of cities saving the planet should be understood in the context of three major historical developments which have their roots in the 1970s and which intensified throughout the 1990s. The first is sprawl: the urban sustaina…
New directions in transnational gentrification: Tourism-led, state-led and lifestyle-led urban transformations
Transnational gentrification is class-based neighbourhood change driven by relatively affluent international migrants. In contrast to the conventional globalisation narrative in which people are significantly more place-bound than capital flows, transnational gentrification suggests that a globally mobile capitalist class has been in large part responsible for rapid change in many urban neighbourhoods. Observations of transnational gentrification…
Two logics of regionalism: The development of a regional imaginary in the Toronto–Waterloo Innovation Corridor
Why and how do regional politics develop outside the context of a coherent regional economy? Alongside the familiar logic of city-regional growth coalitions, we introduce a less familiar logic of regional imaginaries actively constructing strategies in novel scalar configurations. We explore this second logic of regionalism in the case of the Toronto–Waterloo ‘Innovation Corridor’. We highlight three important forces: the productive ambiguity of …
The territory and politics of the post-fossil city
This commentary on Maarten Hajer and Wytske Versteeg's ‘Imagining the post-fossil city’ (2018) discusses some of the assumptions and implications of the authors’ two key formulations: ‘techniques of futuring’ and the ‘post-fossil city’. It begins by scrutinizing the relationship between techniques of futuring and questions of spatial scale. It then unpacks the territorial assumptions of the post-fossil city, suggesting that the latter should be s…
Location, location and professionalization: A multilevel hedonic analysis of Airbnb listing prices and revenue
Hedonic modelling techniques have frequently been used to examine real estate valuation, and they have recently started to be applied to short-term rental valuation. Relying on a web-scraped data set of all Airbnb transactions in New York City (NYC) between August 2014 and September 2016, this paper presents the first hedonic regression model of Airbnb to take into account neighbourhood effects and to predict both average price per night and reve…
Airbnb and the rent gap: Gentrification through the sharing economy
Airbnb and other short-term rental services are a topic of increasing concern for urban researchers, policymakers, and activists, because of the fear that short-term rentals are facilitating gentrification. This article presents a framework for analyzing the relationship between short-term rentals and gentrification, an exploratory case study of New York City, and an agenda for future research. We argue that Airbnb has introduced a new potential …
Green and Gray: New Ideologies of Nature in Urban Sustainability Policy
In the past two decades, urban sustainability has become a new policy common sense. This article argues that contemporary urban sustainability thought and practice is coconstituted by two distinct representational forms, which we call green urban nature and gray urban nature. Green urban nature is the return of nature to the city in its most verdant form, signified by street trees, urban gardens, and the greening of postindustrial landscapes. Gra…
Infrastructure Alliances: Supply-Chain Expansion and Multi-city Growth Coalitions
Recent scholarship has suggested that infrastructure development is fragmenting local urban politics, but I argue that it has had the opposite impact at the multi-city regional scale. New multi-city growth coalitions are currently emerging across the United States, united by a shared interest in supply-chain expansion—the extension of effective supply chains and the intensification of circulatory possibilities in regional transportation networks.…
Expand the frontiers of urban sustainability
Transnational gentrification: Globalisation and neighbourhood change in Panama’s Casco Antiguo
Drawing upon the case of Panama’s Casco Antiguo, this paper establishes the theoretical concept of ‘transnational gentrification’: a process of neighbourhood change both enabled by and formative of a spatially embedded transnational ‘gentry’ whose locational mobility creates new possibilities for profitable housing reinvestment in geographically disparate markets where such possibilities would not have otherwise existed. Globalisation does not ju…
Competitive multi-city regionalism: Growth politics beyond the growth machine
Competitive multi-city regionalism: growth politics beyond the growth machine. Regional Studies. Local growth politics are increasingly conducted at scales that confound the assumptions of growth machine theory. This paper analyzes ‘competitive multi-city regionalism’ in the United States – local growth coalitions collaborating on economic development across multiple city-regions. It introduces the concept of ‘scalar logics of regionalism’ to cha…
Urbanizing Urban Political Ecology: A Critique of Methodological Cityism
Urban political ecology (UPE), an offshoot of political ecology that emerged in the late 1990s, has had two major impacts on critical urban studies: it has introduced critical political ecology to urban settings, and it has provided a framework for retheorizing the city as a product of metabolic processes of socionatural transformation. However, there was another goal in early UPE programmatic statements that has largely fallen by the wayside: to…
City as Ideology: Reconciling the Explosion of the City Form with the Tenacity of the City Concept
This paper is a theoretical reexamination of the traditional concept of the city in the context of urbanization processes that exceed it. Recent decades have seen a proliferation of new variations on the city concept, as well as calls to discard it altogether. I argue that both options are inadequate. The city has generally been understood as a category of analysis-a moment in urbanization processes-but might now be better understood as a categor…
"Introduction to Henri Lefebvre's "Dissolving City, Planetary Metamorphosis
Henri Lefebvre published this short, enigmatic essay in Le Monde diplomatique in 1989, two years before his death, presumably having written it at his family home in Navarrenx. At time he was working with his circle of younger collaborators in Groupe de Navarrenx on volume subsequently published as Du contrat de citoyennete (Lefebvre and Groupe de Navarrenx, 1990). (1) Although Dissolving city, planetary metamorphosis is brief and intended for a …
For the Possibility of Another World: Tributes to Neil Smith (1954–2012): Part Two
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid WachsmuthDavid Wachsmuth trained as an urban planner in Toronto and is now a PhD candidate in sociology at New York University
Reflections on Occupy Wall Street, the state and space
O n Saturday, 15 October 2011, thousands of protesters streamed into Times Square from all directions. A large march arrived from Washington Square, where the first NYC Student Assembly, which we h
Three Ecologies: Urban Metabolism and the Society-Nature Opposition
This article is an intellectual history of two enduring binaries—society-nature and city-countryside—and their co-identification, told through evolving uses of the concept of “urban metabolism.” After recounting the emergence of the modern society-nature opposition in the separation of town and country under early industrial capitalism, I interpret “three ecologies”—successive periods of urban metabolism research spanning three disciplines within…
Between abstraction and complexity: Meta-theoretical observations on the assemblage debate
Theoretical, conceptual and methodological choices must be framed in relation to concrete explanatory and interpretive dilemmas, not ontological foundations. In engaging with the limits and possibilities of recent assemblage-based work in urban studies, our concern has been to help forge new analytical tools for deciphering emerging patterns of planetary urbanization, which have unsettled the coherence and viability of earlier intellectual framew…
Assemblage urbanism and the challenges of critical urban theory
Against the background of contemporary worldwide transformations of urbanizing spaces, this paper evaluates recent efforts to mobilize the concept of 'assemblage' as the foundation for contemporary critical urban theory, with particular attention to a recent paper by McFarlane (2011a McFarlane, C. 2011a. 'Assemblage and critical urbanism'. City, 15(2): 204-224. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]) in this journal. We argue that there is …
Airbnb and the rent gap: Gentrification through the sharing economy
Airbnb and other short-term rental services are a topic of increasing concern for urban researchers, policymakers, and activists, because of the fear that short-term rentals are facilitating gentrification. This article presents a framework for analyzing the relationship between short-term rentals and gentrification, an exploratory case study of New York City, and an agenda for future research. We argue that Airbnb has introduced a new potential …
Urbanizing Urban Political Ecology: A Critique of Methodological Cityism
Urban political ecology (UPE), an offshoot of political ecology that emerged in the late 1990s, has had two major impacts on critical urban studies: it has introduced critical political ecology to urban settings, and it has provided a framework for retheorizing the city as a product of metabolic processes of socionatural transformation. However, there was another goal in early UPE programmatic statements that has largely fallen by the wayside: to…
City as Ideology: Reconciling the Explosion of the City Form with the Tenacity of the City Concept
This paper is a theoretical reexamination of the traditional concept of the city in the context of urbanization processes that exceed it. Recent decades have seen a proliferation of new variations on the city concept, as well as calls to discard it altogether. I argue that both options are inadequate. The city has generally been understood as a category of analysis-a moment in urbanization processes-but might now be better understood as a categor…
Why does everyone think cities can save the planet
This article identifies and explains an underlying transition in global urban policy and discourse from the city as a sustainability problem to the city as a sustainability solution. We argue that contemporary policy discourses of cities saving the planet should be understood in the context of three major historical developments which have their roots in the 1970s and which intensified throughout the 1990s. The first is sprawl: the urban sustaina…
Green and Gray: New Ideologies of Nature in Urban Sustainability Policy
In the past two decades, urban sustainability has become a new policy common sense. This article argues that contemporary urban sustainability thought and practice is coconstituted by two distinct representational forms, which we call green urban nature and gray urban nature. Green urban nature is the return of nature to the city in its most verdant form, signified by street trees, urban gardens, and the greening of postindustrial landscapes. Gra…
Transnational gentrification: Globalisation and neighbourhood change in Panama’s Casco Antiguo
Drawing upon the case of Panama’s Casco Antiguo, this paper establishes the theoretical concept of ‘transnational gentrification’: a process of neighbourhood change both enabled by and formative of a spatially embedded transnational ‘gentry’ whose locational mobility creates new possibilities for profitable housing reinvestment in geographically disparate markets where such possibilities would not have otherwise existed. Globalisation does not ju…
Location, location and professionalization: A multilevel hedonic analysis of Airbnb listing prices and revenue
Hedonic modelling techniques have frequently been used to examine real estate valuation, and they have recently started to be applied to short-term rental valuation. Relying on a web-scraped data set of all Airbnb transactions in New York City (NYC) between August 2014 and September 2016, this paper presents the first hedonic regression model of Airbnb to take into account neighbourhood effects and to predict both average price per night and reve…
Competitive multi-city regionalism: Growth politics beyond the growth machine
Competitive multi-city regionalism: growth politics beyond the growth machine. Regional Studies. Local growth politics are increasingly conducted at scales that confound the assumptions of growth machine theory. This paper analyzes ‘competitive multi-city regionalism’ in the United States – local growth coalitions collaborating on economic development across multiple city-regions. It introduces the concept of ‘scalar logics of regionalism’ to cha…
Three Ecologies: Urban Metabolism and the Society-Nature Opposition
This article is an intellectual history of two enduring binaries—society-nature and city-countryside—and their co-identification, told through evolving uses of the concept of “urban metabolism.” After recounting the emergence of the modern society-nature opposition in the separation of town and country under early industrial capitalism, I interpret “three ecologies”—successive periods of urban metabolism research spanning three disciplines within…
The Covid-19 pandemic: Territorial, political and governance dimensions of the crisis
As editors of Territory, Politics, Governance, we want first and foremost to express our solidarity with those affected and impacted directly by the COVID-19 pandemic. While none of us is untouched by the current public health crisis, what has unfolded thus far reveals only too clearly the inbuilt inequalities of contemporary capitalist society in terms of mortality, illness and recovery (for a pre-COVID-19 discussion of the United States, see Ca…
New directions in transnational gentrification: Tourism-led, state-led and lifestyle-led urban transformations
Transnational gentrification is class-based neighbourhood change driven by relatively affluent international migrants. In contrast to the conventional globalisation narrative in which people are significantly more place-bound than capital flows, transnational gentrification suggests that a globally mobile capitalist class has been in large part responsible for rapid change in many urban neighbourhoods. Observations of transnational gentrification…
Between abstraction and complexity: Meta-theoretical observations on the assemblage debate
Theoretical, conceptual and methodological choices must be framed in relation to concrete explanatory and interpretive dilemmas, not ontological foundations. In engaging with the limits and possibilities of recent assemblage-based work in urban studies, our concern has been to help forge new analytical tools for deciphering emerging patterns of planetary urbanization, which have unsettled the coherence and viability of earlier intellectual framew…
Infrastructure Alliances: Supply-Chain Expansion and Multi-city Growth Coalitions
Recent scholarship has suggested that infrastructure development is fragmenting local urban politics, but I argue that it has had the opposite impact at the multi-city regional scale. New multi-city growth coalitions are currently emerging across the United States, united by a shared interest in supply-chain expansion—the extension of effective supply chains and the intensification of circulatory possibilities in regional transportation networks.…
Reflections on Occupy Wall Street, the state and space
O n Saturday, 15 October 2011, thousands of protesters streamed into Times Square from all directions. A large march arrived from Washington Square, where the first NYC Student Assembly, which we h
The territory and politics of the post-fossil city
This commentary on Maarten Hajer and Wytske Versteeg's ‘Imagining the post-fossil city’ (2018) discusses some of the assumptions and implications of the authors’ two key formulations: ‘techniques of futuring’ and the ‘post-fossil city’. It begins by scrutinizing the relationship between techniques of futuring and questions of spatial scale. It then unpacks the territorial assumptions of the post-fossil city, suggesting that the latter should be s…
Two logics of regionalism: The development of a regional imaginary in the Toronto–Waterloo Innovation Corridor
Why and how do regional politics develop outside the context of a coherent regional economy? Alongside the familiar logic of city-regional growth coalitions, we introduce a less familiar logic of regional imaginaries actively constructing strategies in novel scalar configurations. We explore this second logic of regionalism in the case of the Toronto–Waterloo ‘Innovation Corridor’. We highlight three important forces: the productive ambiguity of …
"Introduction to Henri Lefebvre's "Dissolving City, Planetary Metamorphosis
Henri Lefebvre published this short, enigmatic essay in Le Monde diplomatique in 1989, two years before his death, presumably having written it at his family home in Navarrenx. At time he was working with his circle of younger collaborators in Groupe de Navarrenx on volume subsequently published as Du contrat de citoyennete (Lefebvre and Groupe de Navarrenx, 1990). (1) Although Dissolving city, planetary metamorphosis is brief and intended for a …
Between abstraction and complexity: Meta-theoretical observations on the assemblage debate
Theoretical, conceptual and methodological choices must be framed in relation to concrete explanatory and interpretive dilemmas, not ontological foundations. In engaging with the limits and possibilities of recent assemblage-based work in urban studies, our concern has been to help forge new analytical tools for deciphering emerging patterns of planetary urbanization, which have unsettled the coherence and viability of earlier intellectual framew…
Assemblage urbanism and the challenges of critical urban theory
Against the background of contemporary worldwide transformations of urbanizing spaces, this paper evaluates recent efforts to mobilize the concept of 'assemblage' as the foundation for contemporary critical urban theory, with particular attention to a recent paper by McFarlane (2011a McFarlane, C. 2011a. 'Assemblage and critical urbanism'. City, 15(2): 204-224. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]) in this journal. We argue that there is …
Reflections on Occupy Wall Street, the state and space
O n Saturday, 15 October 2011, thousands of protesters streamed into Times Square from all directions. A large march arrived from Washington Square, where the first NYC Student Assembly, which we h
Three Ecologies: Urban Metabolism and the Society-Nature Opposition
This article is an intellectual history of two enduring binaries—society-nature and city-countryside—and their co-identification, told through evolving uses of the concept of “urban metabolism.” After recounting the emergence of the modern society-nature opposition in the separation of town and country under early industrial capitalism, I interpret “three ecologies”—successive periods of urban metabolism research spanning three disciplines within…
For the Possibility of Another World: Tributes to Neil Smith (1954–2012): Part Two
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid WachsmuthDavid Wachsmuth trained as an urban planner in Toronto and is now a PhD candidate in sociology at New York University
City as Ideology: Reconciling the Explosion of the City Form with the Tenacity of the City Concept
This paper is a theoretical reexamination of the traditional concept of the city in the context of urbanization processes that exceed it. Recent decades have seen a proliferation of new variations on the city concept, as well as calls to discard it altogether. I argue that both options are inadequate. The city has generally been understood as a category of analysis-a moment in urbanization processes-but might now be better understood as a categor…
"Introduction to Henri Lefebvre's "Dissolving City, Planetary Metamorphosis
Henri Lefebvre published this short, enigmatic essay in Le Monde diplomatique in 1989, two years before his death, presumably having written it at his family home in Navarrenx. At time he was working with his circle of younger collaborators in Groupe de Navarrenx on volume subsequently published as Du contrat de citoyennete (Lefebvre and Groupe de Navarrenx, 1990). (1) Although Dissolving city, planetary metamorphosis is brief and intended for a …
Urbanizing Urban Political Ecology: A Critique of Methodological Cityism
Urban political ecology (UPE), an offshoot of political ecology that emerged in the late 1990s, has had two major impacts on critical urban studies: it has introduced critical political ecology to urban settings, and it has provided a framework for retheorizing the city as a product of metabolic processes of socionatural transformation. However, there was another goal in early UPE programmatic statements that has largely fallen by the wayside: to…
Expand the frontiers of urban sustainability
Transnational gentrification: Globalisation and neighbourhood change in Panama’s Casco Antiguo
Drawing upon the case of Panama’s Casco Antiguo, this paper establishes the theoretical concept of ‘transnational gentrification’: a process of neighbourhood change both enabled by and formative of a spatially embedded transnational ‘gentry’ whose locational mobility creates new possibilities for profitable housing reinvestment in geographically disparate markets where such possibilities would not have otherwise existed. Globalisation does not ju…
Competitive multi-city regionalism: Growth politics beyond the growth machine
Competitive multi-city regionalism: growth politics beyond the growth machine. Regional Studies. Local growth politics are increasingly conducted at scales that confound the assumptions of growth machine theory. This paper analyzes ‘competitive multi-city regionalism’ in the United States – local growth coalitions collaborating on economic development across multiple city-regions. It introduces the concept of ‘scalar logics of regionalism’ to cha…
Infrastructure Alliances: Supply-Chain Expansion and Multi-city Growth Coalitions
Recent scholarship has suggested that infrastructure development is fragmenting local urban politics, but I argue that it has had the opposite impact at the multi-city regional scale. New multi-city growth coalitions are currently emerging across the United States, united by a shared interest in supply-chain expansion—the extension of effective supply chains and the intensification of circulatory possibilities in regional transportation networks.…
Airbnb and the rent gap: Gentrification through the sharing economy
Airbnb and other short-term rental services are a topic of increasing concern for urban researchers, policymakers, and activists, because of the fear that short-term rentals are facilitating gentrification. This article presents a framework for analyzing the relationship between short-term rentals and gentrification, an exploratory case study of New York City, and an agenda for future research. We argue that Airbnb has introduced a new potential …
Green and Gray: New Ideologies of Nature in Urban Sustainability Policy
In the past two decades, urban sustainability has become a new policy common sense. This article argues that contemporary urban sustainability thought and practice is coconstituted by two distinct representational forms, which we call green urban nature and gray urban nature. Green urban nature is the return of nature to the city in its most verdant form, signified by street trees, urban gardens, and the greening of postindustrial landscapes. Gra…
The territory and politics of the post-fossil city
This commentary on Maarten Hajer and Wytske Versteeg's ‘Imagining the post-fossil city’ (2018) discusses some of the assumptions and implications of the authors’ two key formulations: ‘techniques of futuring’ and the ‘post-fossil city’. It begins by scrutinizing the relationship between techniques of futuring and questions of spatial scale. It then unpacks the territorial assumptions of the post-fossil city, suggesting that the latter should be s…
Location, location and professionalization: A multilevel hedonic analysis of Airbnb listing prices and revenue
Hedonic modelling techniques have frequently been used to examine real estate valuation, and they have recently started to be applied to short-term rental valuation. Relying on a web-scraped data set of all Airbnb transactions in New York City (NYC) between August 2014 and September 2016, this paper presents the first hedonic regression model of Airbnb to take into account neighbourhood effects and to predict both average price per night and reve…
Airbnb, le partage du logement et le droit au logement à Montréal
La prolifération des locations à court terme, ainsi que les entreprises qui les supportent, ont suscité de nombreux débats houleux dans un nombre croissant de villes concernant l’usage approprié des propriétés résidentielles. Sont-elles des actifs pouvant être convertis à un usage plus rentable en tant que logement touristique, ou s’agit-il de logements pour les résidents locaux ? Cet article analyse le cas de Montréal et constate que les bénéfic…
The Covid-19 pandemic: Territorial, political and governance dimensions of the crisis
As editors of Territory, Politics, Governance, we want first and foremost to express our solidarity with those affected and impacted directly by the COVID-19 pandemic. While none of us is untouched by the current public health crisis, what has unfolded thus far reveals only too clearly the inbuilt inequalities of contemporary capitalist society in terms of mortality, illness and recovery (for a pre-COVID-19 discussion of the United States, see Ca…
Why does everyone think cities can save the planet
This article identifies and explains an underlying transition in global urban policy and discourse from the city as a sustainability problem to the city as a sustainability solution. We argue that contemporary policy discourses of cities saving the planet should be understood in the context of three major historical developments which have their roots in the 1970s and which intensified throughout the 1990s. The first is sprawl: the urban sustaina…
New directions in transnational gentrification: Tourism-led, state-led and lifestyle-led urban transformations
Transnational gentrification is class-based neighbourhood change driven by relatively affluent international migrants. In contrast to the conventional globalisation narrative in which people are significantly more place-bound than capital flows, transnational gentrification suggests that a globally mobile capitalist class has been in large part responsible for rapid change in many urban neighbourhoods. Observations of transnational gentrification…
Two logics of regionalism: The development of a regional imaginary in the Toronto–Waterloo Innovation Corridor
Why and how do regional politics develop outside the context of a coherent regional economy? Alongside the familiar logic of city-regional growth coalitions, we introduce a less familiar logic of regional imaginaries actively constructing strategies in novel scalar configurations. We explore this second logic of regionalism in the case of the Toronto–Waterloo ‘Innovation Corridor’. We highlight three important forces: the productive ambiguity of …
Th anniversary of Territory, Politics, Governance: Achievements and prospects
Ten years ago, the founding Editor-in-Chief of Territory, Politics, Governance, Professor John Agnew, published an editorial in the inaugural issue of this journal. Launched by the Regional Studies Association, and enabled and supported by fellow editors and the publishing team, the vision of the journal was set out clearly and concisely: ‘The intersection between the three words in the journal’s name defines the central purpose of the journal: t…
High Rises and Housing Stress: A Spatial Big Data Analysis of Rental Housing Financialization
Problem, research strategy, and findings The financialization of housing is a rapidly growing concern for planning researchers and policymakers, but the opacity of property ownership in most cities has hampered efforts to rigorously measure the phenomenon. Here we introduce a new approach based on big data methods. By combining web scraping of property assessment, business registry, and rental advertisement data, we reliably identified the networ…
The motivations and practices of commercial short-term rental operators in the short-term/long-term “regulatory gap”
Despite the rapid proliferation of short-term rentals (STRs) over the last decade, research contacting commercial operators to explore their business practices, motivations, and attitudes remains rare. Leveraging a comprehensive dataset of STR activity in Montreal alongside key-informant interviews, this study presents an in-depth portrait of commercial STR operators. We find that the experience of commercially operating STRs is marked by contrad…
Critical Reconstruction Theory and the invention of post-disaster response
No comprehensive theory of reconstruction currently exists. This hinders scholars’ capacity to anticipate patterns, as well as practitioners’ possibilities to evaluate alternatives, design equitable recovery processes and implement appropriate policies. The presented analysis of the pertinent literature over 50 years shows that the notion of reconstruction has been reified in different ways. This constant reinvention of post-disaster response mob…
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