Peripheralization through mass housing urbanization in Hong Kong, Mexico City, and Paris

Kockelkorn, Anne, Schmid, Christian, Streule, Monika ORCID: 0000-0002-3429-8357 and Wong, Kit Ping (2023) Peripheralization through mass housing urbanization in Hong Kong, Mexico City, and Paris. Planning Perspectives, 38 (3). 603 - 641. ISSN 0266-5433

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Abstract

This article compares how state-initiated mass housing urbanization has contributed to processes of peripheralization in three very different historical and geopolitical settings: in Paris from the 1950s to the 1990s in Hong Kong from the 1950s to 2010s and in Mexico City from the 1990s to the 2010s. We understand mass housing urbanization as large-scale industrial housing production based on the intervention of state actors into the urbanization process which leads to the strategic re-organization of urban territories. In this comparison across space and time we focus particularly on how, when and to what degree this urbanization process leads to the peripheralization of settlements and entire neighbourhoods over the course of several decades. This long-term perspective allows us to evaluate not only the decisive turns and ruptures within governmental rationales but also the continuities and contradictions of their territorial effects. Finally, we develop a taxonomy of different modalities of peripheralization that might serve as a conceptual tool for further urban research.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rppe20
Additional Information:	© 2023 The Author(s).
Divisions:	IGA: Latin America and Caribbean Centre
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD100 Land Use H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD2329 Industrialization
Date Deposited:	31 Jan 2023 09:51
Last Modified:	22 Apr 2024 17:09
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/118065

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