‘The Production of Space’, in: Frans Jacobi, Imagine, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, 1996, unpaginated.

The Production of Space

One dimensional man

https://www.coris.uniroma1.it/sites/default/files/12.08.39_Event%20Toursm%20_GETZ.pdf

Event tourism: Definition, evolution, and research

Normal accidents. Living with high-risk technologies

Resena de la obra de Don A. Dillman, Jolene D. Smyth y Leah Melani Christian: Internet, Phone, Mail and Mixed-Mode Surveys. The Tailored Design Method. New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons

https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/7287796.pdf

Internet, phone, mail and mixed-mode surveys: the tailored design method: reseña

Summary. This paper examines the process of ‘tourism gentrification’ using a case study of the socio-spatial transformation of New Orleans’ Vieux Carre (French Quarter) over the past halfcentury. Tourism gentrification refers to the transformation of a middle-class neighbourhood into a relatively affluent and exclusive enclave marked by a proliferation of corporate entertainment and tourism venues. Historically, the Vieux Carre has been the home of diverse groups of people. Over the past two decades, however, median incomes and property values have increased, escalating rents have pushed out lower-income people and African Americans, and tourist attractions and large entertainment clubs now dominate much of the neighbourhood. It is argued that the changing flows of capital into the real estate market combined with the growth of tourism enhance the significance of consumption-oriented activities in residential space and encourage gentrification. The paper contests explanations that view gentrification as an expression of consumer demands, individual preferences or market laws of supply and demand. It examines how the growth of securitisation, changes in consumption and increasing dominance of large entertainment firms manifest through the development of a tourism industry in New Orleans, giving gentrification its own distinct dynamic and local quality.

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Tourism Gentrification: The Case of New Orleans' Vieux Carre (French Quarter)

Since the classic work of Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey, the ‘secondary circuit of capital’ has been a focal point for debate among critical urban scholars. Against the background of contemporary debates on financialization, this article investigates the institutional and political roots of the subprime mortgage crisis. Empirically, the article situates the current turmoil of the US mortgage sector with reference to a series of ad hoc legal and regulatory actions taken since the 1980s to promote the securitization of mortgages and expand the secondary mortgage market. Securitization is a process of converting illiquid assets into transparent securities and is a critical component of the financialization of real estate markets and investment. Specifically, I examine the crucial role played by the US Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in creating the polices and legal-regulatory conditions that have nurtured the growth of a market for securitizing subprime loans. Theoretically, the article examines the subprime mortgage crisis as an illustration of the contradictions of capital circulation as expressed in the tendency of capital to annihilate space through time. Resume Depuis les travaux de reference d’Henri Lefebvre et de David Harvey, le ‘circuit secondaire des capitaux’ a suscite de nombreuses discussions entre specialistes critiques de la ville. Avec en toile de fond les debats contemporains sur la financiarisation, cet article etudie les racines institutionnelles et politiques de la crise des subprimes . Sur le plan empirique, il situe le bouleversement actuel du secteur americain des prets hypothecaires par rapport a une serie de mesures de Droit et de reglementations specifiques adoptees depuis les annees 1980 pour promouvoir la titrisation et le marche secondaire des credits hypothecaires. La titrisation, qui permet de convertir des actifs peu liquides en valeurs mobilieres transparentes, est une composante essentielle de la financiarisation de l’investissement et des marches immobiliers. Une attention particuliere est accordee au role crucial qu’ont joue, aux Etats-Unis, l’autorite de surveillance des banques relevant du ministere des Finances (OCC), ainsi que le ministere du Logement et de l’Urbanisme (HUD), dans la creation des cadres et des conditions juridico-reglementaires qui ont nourri l’essor du marche de la titrisation des prets hypothecaires a risque. Sur le plan theorique, l’article analyse la crise des subprimes comme une illustration des contractions de la circulation des capitaux, ces derniers tendant a aneantir l’espace par le temps.

Creating Liquidity out of Spatial Fixity: The Secondary Circuit of Capital and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis

Recent urban scholarship on the rise of the tourism industry, place marketing and the transformation of cities into entertainment destinations has been dominated by four major themes: the primacy o...

Marketing Mardi Gras: Commodification, Spectacle and the Political Economy of Tourism in New Orleans

Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2000

This article draws on primary and secondary data to provide insight into the processes and conflicts over efforts to brand New Orleans as an entertainment destination from the 1990s to the present. The author identifies the key actors and organized interests involved in branding New Orleans, the rationale and logic of branding, and marketing strategies used to enhance place distinctiveness. The second half of the article describes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans's tourism sector and examines efforts to rebrand the city. The article points to the problems, contradictions, and unpredictabilities of urban branding. This analysis provides an important opportunity for theoretical development and offers a unique perspective for understanding urban branding as a contested and conflictual process of homogenization and diversification.

Kevin Fox Gotham

Papers

Tourism Gentrification: The Case of New Orleans' Vieux Carre (French Quarter)

Creating Liquidity out of Spatial Fixity: The Secondary Circuit of Capital and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis

Marketing Mardi Gras: Commodification, Spectacle and the Political Economy of Tourism in New Orleans

Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2000

(Re)Branding the Big Easy Tourism Rebuilding in Post-Katrina New Orleans