The Expatriate Real Estate Complex
Creative Destruction and the Production of Luxury in Post-Socialist Prague
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4382499 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew C G Cook (0000-0002-9653-8598, Lancaster University, corresponding author), Andrew Cook (0000-0002-3114-4854) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 611-628 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2010.00912.x |
| OpenAlex | W1504582165 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 32 |
This article explores the influence of international financial capital on the production of exclusionary housing markets and spatialities in the city of Prague, Czech Republic. It focuses on the regeneration of Karlín, a district of Prague increasingly defined by the presence of luxury housing and high-specification office developments. Through a critical discussion of two private companies heavily implicated in the renewal of the district, it is possible to examine the ways in which these actors are contributing to this regeneration. I argue that the regeneration of the district is intimately bound up with processes of capitalist uneven development that couple networks of foreign investors with local municipal authorities through an asymmetric set of power relations. These relations are heavily skewed in favour of the private sector, and the complexity of the linkages between these actors makes meaningful regulation of foreign investment extremely challenging. I also suggest that such practices should not be seen as a transitory position between state socialist planning mechanisms and mature 'Western' practices of regeneration, but rather as explicitly post-socialist in nature, and only as a partial reading of a number of different post-socialisms, instead of being seen as representative of a singular 'post-socialist condition'.RésuméCet article explore l'influence du capital financier international sur la production de spatialités et de marchés du logement générateurs d'exclusion dans la capitale tchèque. Il s'intéresse à la régénération de Karlín, un quartier de Prague qui se caractérise de plus en plus par la présence d'habitations de luxe et d'aménagements de bureaux très spécifiques. À travers une analyse critique de deux sociétés privées fortement impliquées dans la rénovation du quartier, il est possible d'étudier les modalités selon lesquelles ces acteurs contribuent à cette régénération. Celle-ci apparaît étroitement liée à des processus d'essor inégal du capitalisme qui associent des réseaux d'investisseurs étrangers aux autorités municipales dans un cadre asymétrique de relations de pouvoir. Ce cadre penche considérablement en faveur du secteur privé, et la complexité des liaisons entre ces acteurs rend extrêmement problématique une réglementation sensée de l'investissement étranger. De telles pratiques ne devraient pas être considérées comme une situation transitoire entre les mécanismes étatiques de planification socialiste et des pratiques de régénération 'occidentales'éprouvées, mais comme étant de nature explicitement postsocialiste, et seulement dans une lecture partielle de plusieurs postsocialismes différents plutôt que dans une vision représentative d'une 'situation postsocialiste' singulière
Economic system · Economics · Economy · Expatriate · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Real estate · Relations of production · Sociology · Global Urban Networks and Dynamics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urbanization and City Planning · Finance
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| Unique citing works | 30 |
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| Citations per year | 1,88 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |