Metropolis, Money and Markets: Brazilian Urban Financialization in Times of Re-emerging Global Finance

ISBN-13: 9781032238364 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 224 str.

Jeroen Klink

Opis

This book explores the impact of finance on urban spaces as well as cities' role in the social constitution and dissemination of financial logics and techniques. It brings together literatures from different disciplinary areas to increase our understanding of financialization.

Spis treści

Introduction

1 A conceptual primer on (urban) financialization

2 State spaces, financialization of cities and the urbanization of finance in the Global South

3 State spaces, urban rents and finance in the Brazilian development trajectory

4 Planning, projects and profitability: The role of financial and institutional devices in the urbanization of finance

5 On contested water governance and the making of urban financialization: Exploring the case of metropolitan

São Paulo, Brazil

6 Building within the limits? A closer look at the “My House, My Life” Program in the outskirts of metropolitan São Paulo

7 On reframing the capital market–austerity nexus and the emerging governance of urban securitization

Conclusion

Index

O autorze

Jeroen Klink is a Dutch economist who works as a professor of economics and urban planning at the Universidade Federal do ABC (São Paulo, Brazil). He has published several books and papers on metropolitan governance, economic restructuring in cities and the role of finance.