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

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

Kockelkorn, A.M. (TU Delft Form, Space & Type; Universiteit Gent)
Schmid, Christian (ETH Zürich)
Streule, Monika (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Wong, Kit Ping (Osaka Metropolitan University)

2022

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.

Peripheralization
mass housing urbanization
urbanization processes
financialization of housing
neoliberal restructuring
territorial inequality
Hong Kong
Paris
Mexico City

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https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2022.2126997

0266-5433

Planning Perspectives: an international journal of history, planning and the environment, 38 (3), 603-641

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© 2022 A.M. Kockelkorn, Christian Schmid, Monika Streule, Kit Ping Wong