Blair Badcock
Biographic Data
| ID | 283482 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Blair Badcock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Blair |
| FAMILY NAME | Badcock |
| SIGNATURE | BADCOCK B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 232 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Making Sense of Cities: A Geographical Survey
In 2000, for the first time, a majority of the world's population was living in cities. The trend towards increasing urbanization shows no sign of slowing and the third millennium looks set to be an unprecedentedly urban one.'Making Sense of Cities' provides an up-to-date, vibrant and accessible introduction to urban geography. It offers students a sense of the patterns and processess of urbanization and the spatial organisation of cities, recogn…
Making Sense of Cities: A geographical survey
Preface Introduction. Urbanization processes and patterns in an era of globalization Urban systems and the growth of cities Geography of wealth creation in cities Location of economic activity in cities Work performed in cities Housing markets and residential location in cities Social and cultural mosaic of cities City environments and lving conditions Urban politics and the management of cities Outlook for the urban millennium Bibliography
Thirty Years On: Gentrification and Class Changeover in Adelaide's Inner Suburbs, 1966-96
This case study updates a long-running investigation into the revitalisation of inner Adelaide previously reported in Urban Studies in 1981 and 1991. Its value is two-fold: first, it provides an opportunity to review critically the fate of gentrification in Australia under economic conditions that others would claim have not always been favourable during the 1990s; and, secondly, it highlights the strategic role of a public housing authority as a…
Thirty Years On: Gentrification and Class Changeover in Adelaide's Inner Suburbs, 1966 96
Thirty Years On: Gentrification and Class Changeover in Adelaide's Inner Suburbs, 1966–96
This case study updates a long-running investigation into the revitalisation of inner Adelaide previously reported in Urban Studies in 1981 and 1991. Its value is two-fold: first, it provides an opportunity to review critically the fate of gentrification in Australia under economic conditions that others would claim have not always been favourable during the 1990s; and, secondly, it highlights the strategic role of a public housing authority as a…
Ethical quandaries and the urban domain
Physical copy available at the Bioethics Research Library. Request at https://bioethics.georgetown.edu/using-the-library/item-hold-request-form
Restructuring and spatial polarization in cities
Recently Observed Polarising Tendencies and Australian Cities
Recent research and writing about social and spatial polarisation in Australian cities is reviewed in a five‐part study. The first part outlines the international context in which Australian urban restructuring and polarisation is occurring. The second considers the consequences of structural adjustment in Australia in terms of changes to the distribution of national income and social costs. There is an apparent incongruity of sharper spatial dis…
Looking-glass' views of the city
Building Upon the Foundations of Gentrification: Inner-City Housing Development in Australia in the 1990s
In three recent papers, Bourne has suggested that the rate of gentrification in Canadian cities will decline, for both demand and supply reasons, notwithstanding economic recovery in the mid- 1990s. This prognosis for Canadian cities is so much at odds with the activity currently being generated in the upper-income housing markets at the center of the five largest Australian cities that it invites further investigation. Evidence is presented of r…
Urban and regional restructuring and spatial transfers of housing wealth
The Strategic Implications for the Randstad of the Dutch Property System
The aim of this paper is to decide how well the Dutch are served by their property system and whether it is organisation ally and functionally suited to advancing the competitive position of the Randstad cities within a unified Europe. In the first part of the paper, some of the distinctive features of the Dutch property system are highlighted by drawing comparison with trends and outcomes found in the British and Australian housing and office su…
Snakes or Ladders: The Housing Market and Wealth Distribution in Australia
Notwithstanding the Exaggerated Claims, Residential Revitalisation Really is Changing the Form of Some Western Cities: A Response to Bourne
Adelaide's Heart Transplant, 1970-88: 3. The Deployment of Capital in the Renovation and Redevelopment Submarkets
In this, the last of three papers devoted to urban restructuring and its impact upon the built environment of an Australian city, the spatial focus narrows from the metropolitan region to an inner zone of Adelaide. This is the part of Adelaide that has gained most from the processes of residential reinvestment and gentrification over the last two decades. The interest in the circulation of capital that has been maintained throughout the previous …
Adelaide's Heart Transplant 1970-88: 1. Creation, Transfer, and Capture of 'Value' within the Built Environment
The circulation of capital within the built environment, as first formalised by Harvey in 1978, is treated empirically via an analysis of residential capital formation and the transfer of value within the Adelaide Metropolitan Area, in the period 1970-88. Operational concepts of value 'creation', 'transfer', and 'capture' are defined before estimates of housing investment and its redistribution through the medium of the urban property market are …
Adelaide's Heart Transplant, 1970-88: 2. The 'Transfer' of Value within the Housing Market
Regression analysis is used to examine the interaction of a number of processes that are thought to be responsible for the geographical transfer of value within the built environment. These are derived from an account by Smith of the restructuring of urban space. The 'transfer' of value is imputed from the differential movement of house prices between 1970 and 1988 for geographical submarkets within the Adelaide Metropolitan Area. Although the in…
The responsiveness of the private rental sector in Australia to changes in commonwealth taxation policy
The introduction of a series of tax reforms by the Hawke government midway through the 1980s generated widespread disagreement about their liable impact upon the production, availability and cost of rental accommodation in Australia. In this paper we examine the validity of the claims made for and against the tax reforms (ie the ‘quarantining’ of negative gearing, the imposition of a capital gains tax, and provision for a 4 per cent depreciation …
Neighbourhood Change in Inner Adelaide: An Update
Where have financial deregulation and structural reform got the housing sector in Australia
KEY WORDS: Financial deregulationHousingNational Housing StrategyOver‐investmentTaxation policyUrban inequities
Reflections on “Homeownership, Accumulation, and Restructuring”: A Response to King
A response is developed to King's charge that the estimates of capital gains obtained for Adelaide housing in the 1970s and 1980s do not reflect the most favourable conditions prevailing in Australia at the time; and, therefore, that one is not really in a sound enough position to challenge the contention that homeownership is an enduring source of real wealth. His related criticism is that the attempt to link intraurban differentiation in rates …
An Australian View of the Rent Gap Hypothesis
Of the several competing theories of gentrification on offer, Neil Smith's rent gap hypothesis has attracted the most attention, probably because it is the most formal and ambitious in its claims. The three key aspects of the theory include: (1) the proposition that gentrification must be preceded by the formation of a rent gap in the inner city property market, (2) the “capital switching”hypothesis, and, (3) the claim that the beginnings of gent…
Homeownership and the Accumulation of Real Wealth
The contention surrounding the significance of homeownership for social theory is reviewed, after which it is suggested that the conceptualisation of wealth accumulation for homeownership has yet to comprehend fully the 'generative mechanisms' underlying capital gains or losses. There is a need to advance beyond the rather limited analysis developed by Thorns in 1981, to a consideration of the connections between urban restructuring, the transfer…
The role of housing expenditure in state development: South Australia, 1936-88
Cities, Housing and Profits: Flat Break-Up and the Decline of Private Renting
Originally published in 1988, this book documents and explains the emergence of flat ‘break-ups’ – the sale of individual owner occupation of blocks of flats which were previously privately rented and which played a major role in the transformation of the private housing market in London since the 1960s. The book shows that the flat break-up market in London was not a unique phenomenon but one of the most geographically concentrated manifestation…
An Australian View of the Rent Gap Hypothesis
Of the several competing theories of gentrification on offer, Neil Smith's rent gap hypothesis has attracted the most attention, probably because it is the most formal and ambitious in its claims. The three key aspects of the theory include: (1) the proposition that gentrification must be preceded by the formation of a rent gap in the inner city property market, (2) the “capital switching”hypothesis, and, (3) the claim that the beginnings of gent…
Homeownership and the Accumulation of Real Wealth
The contention surrounding the significance of homeownership for social theory is reviewed, after which it is suggested that the conceptualisation of wealth accumulation for homeownership has yet to comprehend fully the 'generative mechanisms' underlying capital gains or losses. There is a need to advance beyond the rather limited analysis developed by Thorns in 1981, to a consideration of the connections between urban restructuring, the transfer…
Restructuring and spatial polarization in cities
Neighbourhood Change in Inner Adelaide, 1966-76
The inner residential areas of Australian cities have not experienced the neighbourhood decline associated with the restructuring of old British and US industrial cities. Rather, neighbourhood change near the centre of Australian cities during the 1960s and 70s has been characterised by reinvestment in land and structures. Residential rejuvenation in one such city is illustrated with a case study of Inner Adelaide between 1966 and 1976. This invo…
The responsiveness of the private rental sector in Australia to changes in commonwealth taxation policy
The introduction of a series of tax reforms by the Hawke government midway through the 1980s generated widespread disagreement about their liable impact upon the production, availability and cost of rental accommodation in Australia. In this paper we examine the validity of the claims made for and against the tax reforms (ie the ‘quarantining’ of negative gearing, the imposition of a capital gains tax, and provision for a 4 per cent depreciation …
Adelaide's Heart Transplant 1970-88: 1. Creation, Transfer, and Capture of 'Value' within the Built Environment
The circulation of capital within the built environment, as first formalised by Harvey in 1978, is treated empirically via an analysis of residential capital formation and the transfer of value within the Adelaide Metropolitan Area, in the period 1970-88. Operational concepts of value 'creation', 'transfer', and 'capture' are defined before estimates of housing investment and its redistribution through the medium of the urban property market are …
Unfairly structured cities
Thirty Years On: Gentrification and Class Changeover in Adelaide's Inner Suburbs, 1966-96
This case study updates a long-running investigation into the revitalisation of inner Adelaide previously reported in Urban Studies in 1981 and 1991. Its value is two-fold: first, it provides an opportunity to review critically the fate of gentrification in Australia under economic conditions that others would claim have not always been favourable during the 1990s; and, secondly, it highlights the strategic role of a public housing authority as a…
Notwithstanding the Exaggerated Claims, Residential Revitalisation Really is Changing the Form of Some Western Cities: A Response to Bourne
Building Upon the Foundations of Gentrification: Inner-City Housing Development in Australia in the 1990s
In three recent papers, Bourne has suggested that the rate of gentrification in Canadian cities will decline, for both demand and supply reasons, notwithstanding economic recovery in the mid- 1990s. This prognosis for Canadian cities is so much at odds with the activity currently being generated in the upper-income housing markets at the center of the five largest Australian cities that it invites further investigation. Evidence is presented of r…
Recently Observed Polarising Tendencies and Australian Cities
Recent research and writing about social and spatial polarisation in Australian cities is reviewed in a five‐part study. The first part outlines the international context in which Australian urban restructuring and polarisation is occurring. The second considers the consequences of structural adjustment in Australia in terms of changes to the distribution of national income and social costs. There is an apparent incongruity of sharper spatial dis…
Looking-glass' views of the city
Adelaide's Heart Transplant, 1970-88: 2. The 'Transfer' of Value within the Housing Market
Regression analysis is used to examine the interaction of a number of processes that are thought to be responsible for the geographical transfer of value within the built environment. These are derived from an account by Smith of the restructuring of urban space. The 'transfer' of value is imputed from the differential movement of house prices between 1970 and 1988 for geographical submarkets within the Adelaide Metropolitan Area. Although the in…
The Residential Structure of Metropolitan Sydney
Adelaide's Heart Transplant, 1970-88: 3. The Deployment of Capital in the Renovation and Redevelopment Submarkets
In this, the last of three papers devoted to urban restructuring and its impact upon the built environment of an Australian city, the spatial focus narrows from the metropolitan region to an inner zone of Adelaide. This is the part of Adelaide that has gained most from the processes of residential reinvestment and gentrification over the last two decades. The interest in the circulation of capital that has been maintained throughout the previous …
Neighbourhood Change in Inner Adelaide: An Update
Urban and regional restructuring and spatial transfers of housing wealth
Snakes or Ladders: The Housing Market and Wealth Distribution in Australia
The Contribution of Housing Displacement to the Decline of the Boarding and Lodging Population in Adelaide, 1947-77
This paper critically examines the assumption that the decline of boarding and lodging within the inner areas of large Australian cities is due principally to its displacement by 'gentrification'. A case study of the boarding and lodging sector shows that it has been affected by the same set of market and institutional pressures that have produced net losses in population and housing stock in the City of Adelaide. In addition, it appears that dem…
Educational achievement and participation rates in Sydney
This paper examines the supposition that opportunities with respect to a public good such as education are unequally distributed within large Australian cities like Sydney. As a necessary prerequisite, spatial variations in levels of educational achievement and rates of participation are mapped. Then the discussion, supported with some statistical correlates, focuses on the two main environmental components of educational achievement and motivati…
Where have financial deregulation and structural reform got the housing sector in Australia
KEY WORDS: Financial deregulationHousingNational Housing StrategyOver‐investmentTaxation policyUrban inequities
The role of housing expenditure in state development: South Australia, 1936-88
Unfairly Structured Cities
Ethical quandaries and the urban domain
Physical copy available at the Bioethics Research Library. Request at https://bioethics.georgetown.edu/using-the-library/item-hold-request-form
The Strategic Implications for the Randstad of the Dutch Property System
The aim of this paper is to decide how well the Dutch are served by their property system and whether it is organisation ally and functionally suited to advancing the competitive position of the Randstad cities within a unified Europe. In the first part of the paper, some of the distinctive features of the Dutch property system are highlighted by drawing comparison with trends and outcomes found in the British and Australian housing and office su…
The Residential Structure of Metropolitan Sydney
Educational achievement and participation rates in Sydney
This paper examines the supposition that opportunities with respect to a public good such as education are unequally distributed within large Australian cities like Sydney. As a necessary prerequisite, spatial variations in levels of educational achievement and rates of participation are mapped. Then the discussion, supported with some statistical correlates, focuses on the two main environmental components of educational achievement and motivati…
The Contribution of Housing Displacement to the Decline of the Boarding and Lodging Population in Adelaide, 1947-77
This paper critically examines the assumption that the decline of boarding and lodging within the inner areas of large Australian cities is due principally to its displacement by 'gentrification'. A case study of the boarding and lodging sector shows that it has been affected by the same set of market and institutional pressures that have produced net losses in population and housing stock in the City of Adelaide. In addition, it appears that dem…
Neighbourhood Change in Inner Adelaide, 1966-76
The inner residential areas of Australian cities have not experienced the neighbourhood decline associated with the restructuring of old British and US industrial cities. Rather, neighbourhood change near the centre of Australian cities during the 1960s and 70s has been characterised by reinvestment in land and structures. Residential rejuvenation in one such city is illustrated with a case study of Inner Adelaide between 1966 and 1976. This invo…
Was the South Australian labor party struck down by a bus
(1982). Was the South Australian labor party struck down by a bus? Politics: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 77-84
Shillington House ‘Primers’: A review article
Unfairly structured cities
Unfairly Structured Cities
Unfairly Structured Cities
Through the tail of Harvey's comet
Cities in Crisis. The Political Economy of Urban Development in Post-War Britain
Cities, Housing and Profits: Flat Break-Up and the Decline of Private Renting
Originally published in 1988, this book documents and explains the emergence of flat ‘break-ups’ – the sale of individual owner occupation of blocks of flats which were previously privately rented and which played a major role in the transformation of the private housing market in London since the 1960s. The book shows that the flat break-up market in London was not a unique phenomenon but one of the most geographically concentrated manifestation…
An Australian View of the Rent Gap Hypothesis
Of the several competing theories of gentrification on offer, Neil Smith's rent gap hypothesis has attracted the most attention, probably because it is the most formal and ambitious in its claims. The three key aspects of the theory include: (1) the proposition that gentrification must be preceded by the formation of a rent gap in the inner city property market, (2) the “capital switching”hypothesis, and, (3) the claim that the beginnings of gent…
Homeownership and the Accumulation of Real Wealth
The contention surrounding the significance of homeownership for social theory is reviewed, after which it is suggested that the conceptualisation of wealth accumulation for homeownership has yet to comprehend fully the 'generative mechanisms' underlying capital gains or losses. There is a need to advance beyond the rather limited analysis developed by Thorns in 1981, to a consideration of the connections between urban restructuring, the transfer…
The role of housing expenditure in state development: South Australia, 1936-88
Reflections on “Homeownership, Accumulation, and Restructuring”: A Response to King
A response is developed to King's charge that the estimates of capital gains obtained for Adelaide housing in the 1970s and 1980s do not reflect the most favourable conditions prevailing in Australia at the time; and, therefore, that one is not really in a sound enough position to challenge the contention that homeownership is an enduring source of real wealth. His related criticism is that the attempt to link intraurban differentiation in rates …
The responsiveness of the private rental sector in Australia to changes in commonwealth taxation policy
The introduction of a series of tax reforms by the Hawke government midway through the 1980s generated widespread disagreement about their liable impact upon the production, availability and cost of rental accommodation in Australia. In this paper we examine the validity of the claims made for and against the tax reforms (ie the ‘quarantining’ of negative gearing, the imposition of a capital gains tax, and provision for a 4 per cent depreciation …
Neighbourhood Change in Inner Adelaide: An Update
Where have financial deregulation and structural reform got the housing sector in Australia
KEY WORDS: Financial deregulationHousingNational Housing StrategyOver‐investmentTaxation policyUrban inequities
Adelaide's Heart Transplant, 1970-88: 3. The Deployment of Capital in the Renovation and Redevelopment Submarkets
In this, the last of three papers devoted to urban restructuring and its impact upon the built environment of an Australian city, the spatial focus narrows from the metropolitan region to an inner zone of Adelaide. This is the part of Adelaide that has gained most from the processes of residential reinvestment and gentrification over the last two decades. The interest in the circulation of capital that has been maintained throughout the previous …
Adelaide's Heart Transplant 1970-88: 1. Creation, Transfer, and Capture of 'Value' within the Built Environment
The circulation of capital within the built environment, as first formalised by Harvey in 1978, is treated empirically via an analysis of residential capital formation and the transfer of value within the Adelaide Metropolitan Area, in the period 1970-88. Operational concepts of value 'creation', 'transfer', and 'capture' are defined before estimates of housing investment and its redistribution through the medium of the urban property market are …
Adelaide's Heart Transplant, 1970-88: 2. The 'Transfer' of Value within the Housing Market
Regression analysis is used to examine the interaction of a number of processes that are thought to be responsible for the geographical transfer of value within the built environment. These are derived from an account by Smith of the restructuring of urban space. The 'transfer' of value is imputed from the differential movement of house prices between 1970 and 1988 for geographical submarkets within the Adelaide Metropolitan Area. Although the in…
Notwithstanding the Exaggerated Claims, Residential Revitalisation Really is Changing the Form of Some Western Cities: A Response to Bourne
Urban and regional restructuring and spatial transfers of housing wealth
The Strategic Implications for the Randstad of the Dutch Property System
The aim of this paper is to decide how well the Dutch are served by their property system and whether it is organisation ally and functionally suited to advancing the competitive position of the Randstad cities within a unified Europe. In the first part of the paper, some of the distinctive features of the Dutch property system are highlighted by drawing comparison with trends and outcomes found in the British and Australian housing and office su…
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