[URBANTH-L] CFP: Cities and the Housing Boom/Bust (ISA World Congress, Sweden)

[Angela Jancius]

XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 11-17, 2010

Cities and the housing boom/bust
Joint session of RC21 Regional and Urban Development and RC43 Housing and 
Built Environment

Organizers:
- Manuel Aalbers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 
m.b.aalbers at gmail.com
- Ken Gibb, University of Glasgow, UK, k.gibb at socsci.gla.ac.uk


Housing markets are highly dependent on the economic performance of cities. 
Yet, local housing market boom/bust is shaped not only at the city level, 
but also at the national and increasingly as the financial crisis of 
2007-2009 makes clear at the global level. Local, national and global 
factors interact to produce housing booms/busts. A housing boom may be seen 
as a sign of economic vitality of a city, but also implies an affordability 
crisis for large parts of the urban population. A housing bust may be 
connected to an economic downturn and may result in redundant housing in one 
city and only a pause in increasing house prices in another.
Possible topics for this session include, but are not limited to:
The local politics of housing

Examples of housing boom/bust

Analysis of how local, national and global factors interact in shaping 
housing markets

Local housing effects of the global financial crisis

Booming neighbourhoods in a busting city

Busting neighbourhoods in a booming city

The real estate network as a growth machine


If interested, please send an abstract of no more than 200 words to both 
organizers before October 30, 2009.

-- 
Manuel B. Aalbers, Ph.D.
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies 
(AMIDSt)
Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130
1018 VZ  Amsterdam
The Netherlands
http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/m.b.aalbers/