Pub Date : 2026-02-03DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2026.109159
Alexandra Serebriakova, Friedemann Polzin, Mark Sanders
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Pub Date : 2026-02-03DOI: 10.1177/00420980251405782
Allaeddine Fenchouch
While academic research on the mechanisms of production of the built environment has often focused on large-scale real estate projects in alliance with public authorities, the nature and scale of micro-projects and small-scale investors are rarely explored. This article proposes to examine the ‘ordinary fabric of the city’ through these micro real estate projects, which oscillate between formal and informal practices, based on a qualitative study conducted with mainly resident investors and small-scale developers in a peripheral municipality of the Algerian capital, Algiers. Our starting point is the hypothesis that urban production is increasingly moving towards more insecure and unpredictable cities as a result of private initiatives that are less visible, but nonetheless decisive in urban transformation. The study examines the conditions under which these investments emerge, in undervalued urban spaces and in a partially or wholly informal context. It also focuses on the bricolage of the ordinary fabric, analyses forms of ‘tactics’ used by actors to mimic legality, takes into account the conflictual aspects of emerging projects and bears witness to the emergence of a quasi-informal property market. The findings point to a strong potential for policy to formalise informal practices. The results also indicate that a significant part of the city depends on free market mechanisms that are partially free of constraints, where non-conforming transactions and constructions shape a mixed urbanisation.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-03DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.108944
Babette Never , Alexander Stoecker , Aime Tsinda , Eric Mujanama , Roger Mugisha
Green, circular buildings are crucial for climate change mitigation and resource efficiency, yet their employment impact in Sub-Saharan Africa remains unclear. This paper explores green job potential in Kigali, Rwanda—an urbanizing city with strong policy commitments and urgent housing needs. Employing a sequential mixed-methods design, we conducted 33 expert interviews and surveyed 546 firms across five construction value chain segments. We find that (1) many green jobs already exist, with 5.1% highly green and about 58% partly green based on practices performed; (2) green and circular practices are emerging through both policy support and grassroots innovation, (3) greening is positively, significantly correlated with employment growth for highly green firms, and (4) greening is significantly associated with improved job quality for all firms. Targeted support for firms in critical greening phases could boost job creation and quality. A mix of interventions is required to tackle cost competitiveness, skills and attitudes.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-03DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2026.104240
John W. Barry, Bruce I. Carlin, Alan D. Crane, John R. Graham
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Pub Date : 2026-02-03DOI: 10.1177/00420980251410862
Sihyun Choi
This study examines intergenerational wealth transfer and class reproduction strategies centered on Gangnam housing, drawing from in-depth interviews with senior residents and their adult children. The senior upper-middle class residents of Gangnam, who acquired residential properties early during the district’s development and accumulated significant wealth, engage in class reproduction by transferring assets—primarily Gangnam real estate—to their adult children. This practice emerges as a response to rising labor market insecurity and increasing housing market polarization, which make it difficult for their children to secure residency in Gangnam independently. This article makes three key arguments. First, it emphasizes that class reproduction strategies extend beyond young adulthood, continuing over the life course into middle age. Second, it highlights that intergenerational wealth transfer requires persistent collaboration and sustained efforts between generations. Third, it argues that family strategies aimed exclusively at sharing scarce urban resources, such as Gangnam’s high-priced real estate, exemplify class- and space-based social closure, thereby functioning as a mechanism that perpetuates social inequality.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-03DOI: 10.1177/00420980251408379
Lora A. Phillips
Scholarly debates about a right to the city in the Global North have largely neglected the potential role of housing type and tenure in shaping displacement risk and socio-demographic disparities therein. Yet, past scholarship demonstrates that mobile home residents face a heighted risk of dispossession relative to residents of other dwelling types. Leveraging microdata from Canada’s 2021 Census of Population, I elucidate who would lose their right to the city if urban mobile home residents were displaced. First, I use latent class analysis to identify two distinct clusters of urban mobile home residents, each containing approximately 50% of Canada’s urban mobile home population, but whose socio-demographic characteristics differ along key dimensions of social vulnerability. Next, I conduct a series of logistic regression models to simulate between-cluster variation in the likelihood of displacement if mobile home dispossession were to occur. Results demonstrate significant variation in the likelihood of displacement across clusters, suggesting that the urban mobile home residents at the greatest risk of displacement are lower-income, white, older adults who are not in the labor force and who live alone. By bringing scholarly debates about a right to the city into conversation with the literature on mobile homes, I underscore the key role of dwelling type and tenure in shaping urban citizenship in Canada.
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