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• Tytuł:
  “Survival” of the fittest, “sheltering” of the mightiest: competition and regulation in contemporary urban housing markets
• Twórca:
  Brandl, Erika
• Opis:
  This essay mobilizes popular insights about the “law of the jungle” to conceptualize and critique prevalent consumption and policy attitudes in urban environments, with a focus on residential infrastructure. A phrase used metaphorically to describe a given situation where competition, aggression, and “survival of the fittest” prevail, it is here used in order to formulate a new characterization of contemporary cities as environments where there is minimal housing regulation or oversight (architectural occupation as survival-of-the-fittest battle), and where individual dwellers are left to operate without significant constraints. In the first section of the paper, I introduce a commonplace interpretation of the “jungle metaphor”, commenting on sets of characteristics and values which are associated with it. In the second section of the paper, I paint a portrait of contemporary socio-economic environments, with a focus on urbanity and its distributive ordering of housing resources. I describe these environments as constructed (formal arrangements; architecture and urbanism) and policed (institutional arrangements; governments and state authorities) in manners which acutely—and problematically—emphasize market laissez-faire and self-interest. In the third section of the paper, I link this portrait of the contemporary city to survival-of-the-fittest jungle-like spaces, commenting on rivalrous competition between dwellers and, in the fourth and concluding section, I briefly propose one possible, normatively desirable form of urban market regulations.
• Dostępność obiektu:
  free access
• Prawa: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0 ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2024 Erika Brandl
• Data:
  2024.12.31
• Typ:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Język:
  English
• Źródło:
  Porównania; Vol. 36 No. 2 (2024): Images of the City: Urban Jungle - Urban Desert - Urban Meadow; 201-214;
  Porównania; Tom 36 Nr 2 (2024): Obrazy miasta. Miejska dżungla – miejska pustynia – miejska łąka; 201-214;
  1733-165X
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Wydawca:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relacja: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/42886/38177
• Temat i słowa kluczowe:
  housing;
  jungle law;
  competition;
  scarcity;
  laissez-faire;
  market regulation;
  urbanity;
  urban land development
• Identyfikator: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/42886
• Dostawca danych:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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