*-- CALL FOR PAPERS --* *American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting*
*New Orleans, Louisiana, April 10-14, 2018* *Real Estate, Finance and Urban Development* Organizer: Manuel B. Aalbers (KU Leuven) *Real estate* and *finance* were at the roots of the global economic crisis that started in 2007. *States* and their many institutions, including central banks and financial regulators, have also been seen as complicit to the crisis. *Cities* have recently entered a period of severe economic turbulence, with high levels of financial uncertainty as resources of governments as well as citizens and businesses have diminished. Future funding for urban development is likely to be increasingly limited due to the reform and re-regulation of financial markets and changing underlying financial-economic conditions of urban property markets. This session emphasizes the relation between real estate, urban development and financial markets. In order to understand urban development and redevelopment processes, it is crucial to understand not only the interaction of supply and demand but also the role of state regulation as well as financial forces at work in increasingly international capital markets. I hope to be able to organize a series of sub-sections, with separate time slots dedicated to: - the financialization of local government - the new growth coalition/machine - the assetization/financialization of land, housing and real estate - megaprojects: finance, RE and the city - urban development and state spatiality - the city as a safe deposit box for transnational wealth elites - international investors and accumulation-by-dispossession Interested applicants should send abstracts (max. 250 words) to Manuel B. Aalbers (manuel.aalb...@kuleuven.be) by *October 13th*. Accepted applicants will be notified by *October 18th*. *-- * Manuel B. Aalbers, Ph.D. KU Leuven / University of Leuven Department of Geography & Tourism Celestijnenlaan 200e -- bus 2409 3001 Heverlee Belgium http://ees.kuleuven.be/refcom http://kuleuven.academia.edu/ManuelAalbers
