Laurence Murphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurence Murphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurence |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphy |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6811-4037 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 198 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Assembling urban mega-events: The life cycle of the 36th America’s Cup in Auckland
Urban mega-event research has been largely shaped by studies of premier spectacles, such as the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup, where governance is commonly interpreted through urban entrepreneurialism, elite coalitions, and state-of-exception arguments. These frameworks are less suited to second-tier events, whose institutional arrangements are more negotiated, commercially embedded, and contingent. Therefore, this paper uses assemblage th…
“Think of a future Auckland”: Public Influencing in Unsolicited Development Proposals
Building on recent interest in unsolicited urbanism – private sector-led urban development proposals that bypass state-led strategic planning – this paper broadens the focus of existing literature from “back room” deal-making to influence campaigns that occur “in plain sight”. Prompted by highly visible unsolicited plans for waterfront redevelopment in Auckland, New Zealand, the paper discusses how public promotion of speculative proposals can be…
State of Families Brief Report: Washington, USA (2023)
This report provides a brief overview of family statistics, including the number of families and households, family composition, ethnic and racial diversity, marriage and divorce rates, family income, employment rates, and education levels for the state of Washington in the USA. Key findings of the report provided a snapshot of the challenges facing Washingtonian families, such as economic insecurity, lack of affordable housing, inadequate access…
Performing calculative practices: Residual valuation, the residential development process and affordable housing
This article examines the ways in which post-social and relational theories have the potential to add to our understanding of housing issues. Drawing on the work of the sociologist Michel Callon and the geographer Susan Smith, it examines the ways in which housing markets are made. In particular, focusing on calculative practices it examines how the performative nature of residual valuation calculations has profound implications for the operation…
Treating ecological deficit with debt: The practical and political concerns with green bonds
The politics of land supply and affordable housing: Auckland’s Housing Accord and Special Housing Areas
Increasingly, planning for housing development involves political conflict between local government planning practices, based on urban sustainability and housing intensification, and central government housing policies, centred on land supply and housing affordability. This paper examines a key historical moment in the politics of housing supply and planning in New Zealand. Drawing upon a discourse analysis of a range of housing policy documents …
Financialization (un)limited
In response to Christophers’ timely critique of the concept of financialization, and its usage, I reflect on the productive possibilities inherent in research that actively engages with the notion of ‘financialization (un)limited’. Drawing on research into property investment and development, I reflect on the value of studies that take cognizance of the evolving and protean nature of financialization as a process and, in addition, take seriously …
Houston, we've got a problem’: The Political Construction of a Housing Affordability Metric in New Zealand
Since the global financial crisis, housing affordability has assumed increased policy significance in a number of countries around the world. At a national level, housing policy formation is subject to certain path dependency processes and embedded institutional structures. In this paper, I argue that housing policy formation in New Zealand is increasingly subject to global flows of policy ideas and that the development of new housing affordabili…
The global financial crisis and the Australian and New Zealand housing markets
Influences and Emotions: Exploring Family Decision-making Processes when Buying a House
The decision to purchase a house is embedded within a set of economic and socio-cultural processes and is operationalized within the context of a specific local property market. In the residential mobility literature considerable attention has been given to examining issues of house prices, life-course and demographic influences on the decision to buy, but less attention has been directed to understanding the internal family decision-making proce…
Third-wave Gentrification in New Zealand: The Case of Auckland
New Zealand's engagement with neo-liberalism since the mid 1980s has resulted in a profound transformation of its economy and society. As part of this process, new urban governance structures aligned with more entrepreneurial state activities have helped to fashion a dramatic revalorisation of inner-city areas. Under supportive planning conditions, considerable inflows of real estate capital have produced a set of spatially distinct and socially …
Spiced-up sandringham: Indian transnationalism and new suburban spaces in Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland's ethnic composition has diversified rapidly since the introduction of a new immigration policy in 1987. The policy targets migrants with skills and investment capital, and while it has attracted many asset-rich migrants, it has also resulted in the immigration of many with relatively little wealth, from a range of countries. Thus, much of the media attention which once focused on disadvantaged migrant groups shifted its attention to app…
To the market and back: Housing policy and state housing in New Zealand
Reasserting the 'social' in social rented housing: Politics, housing policy and housing reforms in New Zealand
After a decade of wide-ranging social welfare reforms in New Zealand, that have resulted in a considerable restructuring of the role of the state in housing provision, the introduction of new housing legislation in 2000 marked a significant attempt to reassert the notion of social provision. This article examines the manner in which housing policy has recast the role of social rented housing in New Zealand and sets out the political context and i…
A profitable housing policy? The privatization of the New Zealand Government's residential mortgage portfolio
(2000). A profitable housing policy? The privatization of the New Zealand Government's residential mortgage portfolio. Regional Studies: Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 395-399
Financial engine or glorified back office? Dublin's International Financial Services Centre going global
Considerable geographical analysis has been directed towards understanding the emergence and development of ‘world cities’ and their role in the coordination of the global economy. In particular, there has been an emphasis on exploring the character and nature of financial services located in these centres. In examining global centres,‘other’ places are often implicitly constructed as peripheries. Yet these ‘peripheries’ have been experiencing si…
Space Traders: Reregulation, Property Companies and Auckland's Office Market, 1975-94
The global property boom of the 1980s and its aftermath has prompted considerable debate among academics. For the most part research has been directed toward the global cities of London, New York and Tokyo. Notwithstanding the significance of property processes within these global cities, metropolitan areas outside of the core financial centres have also experienced major transformations in their property markets. This paper examines the characte…
Whose interest rates? Issues in the development of mortgage‐backed securitisation
The development of secondary mortgage market activities such as portfolio sales and mortgage securitisation attests to the increasingly sophisticated character of housing finance in developed economies. In the US, where mortgage securitisation is well established, the mortgage‐backed securities (MBS) market is currently valued in excess of US$1000 billion. Elsewhere, mortgage securitisation is emerging within the context of a variety of regulator…
Mortgage Finance and Housing Provision in Ireland, 1970-90
Mortgage institutions actively shape the character of home-ownership in advanced capitalist economies. An understanding of the forces promoting institutional change and the nature of these changes provides insights into the developing structure of home ownership. Using a 'structures of housing provision' framework, this paper examines the dynamics of the Irish housing market over the period 1970-90. Combining data on macro-level trends in housing…
Economic restructuring, housing policy and Maori housing in Northland, New Zealand
The downside of home ownership: Housing change and mortgage arrears in the republic of Ireland
Recent debates concerning the existence of social divisions within home ownership hold implications for analyses of housing policy. This is especially true in situations where housing policy has been driven by an overt support for home ownership. In particular, the consequences of expanding home ownership among low‐income groups needs to be examined. This paper argues that an appropriate framework for such an investigation requires a three tiered…
Housing New Zealand Ltd: Privatisation by Stealth
Like a number of other capitalist countries, New Zealand has recently undergone considerable economic restructuring. As part of this process, and representing a major policy redirection, the state has introduced a process of corporatisation and privatisation into the social service sector. In this paper we examine the processes involved in the shift from social rented housing to the emergence of a state-owned, commercially-oriented company, Housi…
Treating ecological deficit with debt: The practical and political concerns with green bonds
Houston, we've got a problem’: The Political Construction of a Housing Affordability Metric in New Zealand
Since the global financial crisis, housing affordability has assumed increased policy significance in a number of countries around the world. At a national level, housing policy formation is subject to certain path dependency processes and embedded institutional structures. In this paper, I argue that housing policy formation in New Zealand is increasingly subject to global flows of policy ideas and that the development of new housing affordabili…
The politics of land supply and affordable housing: Auckland’s Housing Accord and Special Housing Areas
Increasingly, planning for housing development involves political conflict between local government planning practices, based on urban sustainability and housing intensification, and central government housing policies, centred on land supply and housing affordability. This paper examines a key historical moment in the politics of housing supply and planning in New Zealand. Drawing upon a discourse analysis of a range of housing policy documents …
Third-wave Gentrification in New Zealand: The Case of Auckland
New Zealand's engagement with neo-liberalism since the mid 1980s has resulted in a profound transformation of its economy and society. As part of this process, new urban governance structures aligned with more entrepreneurial state activities have helped to fashion a dramatic revalorisation of inner-city areas. Under supportive planning conditions, considerable inflows of real estate capital have produced a set of spatially distinct and socially …
Influences and Emotions: Exploring Family Decision-making Processes when Buying a House
The decision to purchase a house is embedded within a set of economic and socio-cultural processes and is operationalized within the context of a specific local property market. In the residential mobility literature considerable attention has been given to examining issues of house prices, life-course and demographic influences on the decision to buy, but less attention has been directed to understanding the internal family decision-making proce…
Spiced-up sandringham: Indian transnationalism and new suburban spaces in Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland's ethnic composition has diversified rapidly since the introduction of a new immigration policy in 1987. The policy targets migrants with skills and investment capital, and while it has attracted many asset-rich migrants, it has also resulted in the immigration of many with relatively little wealth, from a range of countries. Thus, much of the media attention which once focused on disadvantaged migrant groups shifted its attention to app…
To the market and back: Housing policy and state housing in New Zealand
Housing New Zealand Ltd: Privatisation by Stealth
Like a number of other capitalist countries, New Zealand has recently undergone considerable economic restructuring. As part of this process, and representing a major policy redirection, the state has introduced a process of corporatisation and privatisation into the social service sector. In this paper we examine the processes involved in the shift from social rented housing to the emergence of a state-owned, commercially-oriented company, Housi…
The global financial crisis and the Australian and New Zealand housing markets
Performing calculative practices: Residual valuation, the residential development process and affordable housing
This article examines the ways in which post-social and relational theories have the potential to add to our understanding of housing issues. Drawing on the work of the sociologist Michel Callon and the geographer Susan Smith, it examines the ways in which housing markets are made. In particular, focusing on calculative practices it examines how the performative nature of residual valuation calculations has profound implications for the operation…
A profitable housing policy? The privatization of the New Zealand Government's residential mortgage portfolio
(2000). A profitable housing policy? The privatization of the New Zealand Government's residential mortgage portfolio. Regional Studies: Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 395-399
Space Traders: Reregulation, Property Companies and Auckland's Office Market, 1975-94
The global property boom of the 1980s and its aftermath has prompted considerable debate among academics. For the most part research has been directed toward the global cities of London, New York and Tokyo. Notwithstanding the significance of property processes within these global cities, metropolitan areas outside of the core financial centres have also experienced major transformations in their property markets. This paper examines the characte…
Reasserting the 'social' in social rented housing: Politics, housing policy and housing reforms in New Zealand
After a decade of wide-ranging social welfare reforms in New Zealand, that have resulted in a considerable restructuring of the role of the state in housing provision, the introduction of new housing legislation in 2000 marked a significant attempt to reassert the notion of social provision. This article examines the manner in which housing policy has recast the role of social rented housing in New Zealand and sets out the political context and i…
Mortgage Finance and Housing Provision in Ireland, 1970-90
Mortgage institutions actively shape the character of home-ownership in advanced capitalist economies. An understanding of the forces promoting institutional change and the nature of these changes provides insights into the developing structure of home ownership. Using a 'structures of housing provision' framework, this paper examines the dynamics of the Irish housing market over the period 1970-90. Combining data on macro-level trends in housing…
Financial engine or glorified back office? Dublin's International Financial Services Centre going global
Considerable geographical analysis has been directed towards understanding the emergence and development of ‘world cities’ and their role in the coordination of the global economy. In particular, there has been an emphasis on exploring the character and nature of financial services located in these centres. In examining global centres,‘other’ places are often implicitly constructed as peripheries. Yet these ‘peripheries’ have been experiencing si…
Economic restructuring, housing policy and Maori housing in Northland, New Zealand
The downside of home ownership: Housing change and mortgage arrears in the republic of Ireland
Recent debates concerning the existence of social divisions within home ownership hold implications for analyses of housing policy. This is especially true in situations where housing policy has been driven by an overt support for home ownership. In particular, the consequences of expanding home ownership among low‐income groups needs to be examined. This paper argues that an appropriate framework for such an investigation requires a three tiered…
Financialization (un)limited
In response to Christophers’ timely critique of the concept of financialization, and its usage, I reflect on the productive possibilities inherent in research that actively engages with the notion of ‘financialization (un)limited’. Drawing on research into property investment and development, I reflect on the value of studies that take cognizance of the evolving and protean nature of financialization as a process and, in addition, take seriously …
Whose interest rates? Issues in the development of mortgage‐backed securitisation
The development of secondary mortgage market activities such as portfolio sales and mortgage securitisation attests to the increasingly sophisticated character of housing finance in developed economies. In the US, where mortgage securitisation is well established, the mortgage‐backed securities (MBS) market is currently valued in excess of US$1000 billion. Elsewhere, mortgage securitisation is emerging within the context of a variety of regulator…
The downside of home ownership: Housing change and mortgage arrears in the republic of Ireland
Recent debates concerning the existence of social divisions within home ownership hold implications for analyses of housing policy. This is especially true in situations where housing policy has been driven by an overt support for home ownership. In particular, the consequences of expanding home ownership among low‐income groups needs to be examined. This paper argues that an appropriate framework for such an investigation requires a three tiered…
Housing New Zealand Ltd: Privatisation by Stealth
Like a number of other capitalist countries, New Zealand has recently undergone considerable economic restructuring. As part of this process, and representing a major policy redirection, the state has introduced a process of corporatisation and privatisation into the social service sector. In this paper we examine the processes involved in the shift from social rented housing to the emergence of a state-owned, commercially-oriented company, Housi…
Mortgage Finance and Housing Provision in Ireland, 1970-90
Mortgage institutions actively shape the character of home-ownership in advanced capitalist economies. An understanding of the forces promoting institutional change and the nature of these changes provides insights into the developing structure of home ownership. Using a 'structures of housing provision' framework, this paper examines the dynamics of the Irish housing market over the period 1970-90. Combining data on macro-level trends in housing…
Economic restructuring, housing policy and Maori housing in Northland, New Zealand
Whose interest rates? Issues in the development of mortgage‐backed securitisation
The development of secondary mortgage market activities such as portfolio sales and mortgage securitisation attests to the increasingly sophisticated character of housing finance in developed economies. In the US, where mortgage securitisation is well established, the mortgage‐backed securities (MBS) market is currently valued in excess of US$1000 billion. Elsewhere, mortgage securitisation is emerging within the context of a variety of regulator…
Space Traders: Reregulation, Property Companies and Auckland's Office Market, 1975-94
The global property boom of the 1980s and its aftermath has prompted considerable debate among academics. For the most part research has been directed toward the global cities of London, New York and Tokyo. Notwithstanding the significance of property processes within these global cities, metropolitan areas outside of the core financial centres have also experienced major transformations in their property markets. This paper examines the characte…
Financial engine or glorified back office? Dublin's International Financial Services Centre going global
Considerable geographical analysis has been directed towards understanding the emergence and development of ‘world cities’ and their role in the coordination of the global economy. In particular, there has been an emphasis on exploring the character and nature of financial services located in these centres. In examining global centres,‘other’ places are often implicitly constructed as peripheries. Yet these ‘peripheries’ have been experiencing si…
A profitable housing policy? The privatization of the New Zealand Government's residential mortgage portfolio
(2000). A profitable housing policy? The privatization of the New Zealand Government's residential mortgage portfolio. Regional Studies: Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 395-399
Reasserting the 'social' in social rented housing: Politics, housing policy and housing reforms in New Zealand
After a decade of wide-ranging social welfare reforms in New Zealand, that have resulted in a considerable restructuring of the role of the state in housing provision, the introduction of new housing legislation in 2000 marked a significant attempt to reassert the notion of social provision. This article examines the manner in which housing policy has recast the role of social rented housing in New Zealand and sets out the political context and i…
To the market and back: Housing policy and state housing in New Zealand
Spiced-up sandringham: Indian transnationalism and new suburban spaces in Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland's ethnic composition has diversified rapidly since the introduction of a new immigration policy in 1987. The policy targets migrants with skills and investment capital, and while it has attracted many asset-rich migrants, it has also resulted in the immigration of many with relatively little wealth, from a range of countries. Thus, much of the media attention which once focused on disadvantaged migrant groups shifted its attention to app…
Influences and Emotions: Exploring Family Decision-making Processes when Buying a House
The decision to purchase a house is embedded within a set of economic and socio-cultural processes and is operationalized within the context of a specific local property market. In the residential mobility literature considerable attention has been given to examining issues of house prices, life-course and demographic influences on the decision to buy, but less attention has been directed to understanding the internal family decision-making proce…
Third-wave Gentrification in New Zealand: The Case of Auckland
New Zealand's engagement with neo-liberalism since the mid 1980s has resulted in a profound transformation of its economy and society. As part of this process, new urban governance structures aligned with more entrepreneurial state activities have helped to fashion a dramatic revalorisation of inner-city areas. Under supportive planning conditions, considerable inflows of real estate capital have produced a set of spatially distinct and socially …
The global financial crisis and the Australian and New Zealand housing markets
Houston, we've got a problem’: The Political Construction of a Housing Affordability Metric in New Zealand
Since the global financial crisis, housing affordability has assumed increased policy significance in a number of countries around the world. At a national level, housing policy formation is subject to certain path dependency processes and embedded institutional structures. In this paper, I argue that housing policy formation in New Zealand is increasingly subject to global flows of policy ideas and that the development of new housing affordabili…
Financialization (un)limited
In response to Christophers’ timely critique of the concept of financialization, and its usage, I reflect on the productive possibilities inherent in research that actively engages with the notion of ‘financialization (un)limited’. Drawing on research into property investment and development, I reflect on the value of studies that take cognizance of the evolving and protean nature of financialization as a process and, in addition, take seriously …
The politics of land supply and affordable housing: Auckland’s Housing Accord and Special Housing Areas
Increasingly, planning for housing development involves political conflict between local government planning practices, based on urban sustainability and housing intensification, and central government housing policies, centred on land supply and housing affordability. This paper examines a key historical moment in the politics of housing supply and planning in New Zealand. Drawing upon a discourse analysis of a range of housing policy documents …
Performing calculative practices: Residual valuation, the residential development process and affordable housing
This article examines the ways in which post-social and relational theories have the potential to add to our understanding of housing issues. Drawing on the work of the sociologist Michel Callon and the geographer Susan Smith, it examines the ways in which housing markets are made. In particular, focusing on calculative practices it examines how the performative nature of residual valuation calculations has profound implications for the operation…
Treating ecological deficit with debt: The practical and political concerns with green bonds
“Think of a future Auckland”: Public Influencing in Unsolicited Development Proposals
Building on recent interest in unsolicited urbanism – private sector-led urban development proposals that bypass state-led strategic planning – this paper broadens the focus of existing literature from “back room” deal-making to influence campaigns that occur “in plain sight”. Prompted by highly visible unsolicited plans for waterfront redevelopment in Auckland, New Zealand, the paper discusses how public promotion of speculative proposals can be…
State of Families Brief Report: Washington, USA (2023)
This report provides a brief overview of family statistics, including the number of families and households, family composition, ethnic and racial diversity, marriage and divorce rates, family income, employment rates, and education levels for the state of Washington in the USA. Key findings of the report provided a snapshot of the challenges facing Washingtonian families, such as economic insecurity, lack of affordable housing, inadequate access…
Assembling urban mega-events: The life cycle of the 36th America’s Cup in Auckland
Urban mega-event research has been largely shaped by studies of premier spectacles, such as the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup, where governance is commonly interpreted through urban entrepreneurialism, elite coalitions, and state-of-exception arguments. These frameworks are less suited to second-tier events, whose institutional arrangements are more negotiated, commercially embedded, and contingent. Therefore, this paper uses assemblage th…
Economics (19 works) · Business (15 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (14 works) · Finance (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Housing Market and Economics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · New Zealand Economic and Social Studies (8 works) · Politics (8 works)