by WhWills2562 | Aug 18, 2020 | Amsterdam, Housing, Investors
One and the same? Our new article in the Journal of Planning Literature confirms that there is limited academic engagement with investor stratifications. Furthermore, it establishes a new analytical framework for scholars to think along multidimensional lines to...
by WhWills2562 | Sep 25, 2019 | Amsterdam, Investors, Planning
Eleven students complete their master thesis in a WHIG-related thesis project group at the University of Amsterdam. The start of the WHIG project coincided with a new round of thesis supervision for master students of the MSc Urban and Regional Planning at the...
by WhWills2562 | Jun 12, 2019 | Investors, London
Hamlet Without the Prince or Why We Need More Research on How Private Sector Actors See the World. I recently gave a paper in the Department of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow on the subject of ‘Seeing Like an Investor’. The talk was based on a paper that...
by WhWills2562 | May 20, 2019 | Financialization, Housing, Investors, London
Law at the Margins of the City: a day on law and financialization, Birkbeck, London. Recent debates in urban studies on finance (and financialization) have highlighted new investors in urban development. Former UN special rapporteur on housing revisits London Luckily...