The city of the "all-developable land": Strategies of the real state and new and unsustainable ways of urbanization

Authors

  • Basilio Calderón Calderón Department of Geography, University of Valladolid , Departamento de Geografía, Universidad de Valladolid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24197/ciudades.08.2004.135-155

Keywords:

real estate, building companies, urban pathologies

Abstract

Since the end of twentieth century, real estate companies –property developers and builders- have modified their traditional strategies in order to obtain more land to compete in the new territories, diversifying business areas and investing outside. Thanks to it, their monopolistic position has been reinforced even making, with the necessary aid of the institutions, the access to the cities much more difficult and expensive, being those institutions completely unable of stopping the sector extreme voracity.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.
Portada Ciudades 08, 2004 (La Rondilla)

Downloads

Published

2018-02-01

Issue

No. 08 (2004): Recycling the city

Section

Monographic section

License

All contents published in Ciudades are under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

  • Attribution: any use of the work authorized by the license will be required to acknowledge authorship.

Authors continue to own their work and may republish their articles by other means without having to seek permission, as long as they state that the work was originally published in Ciudades.

How to Cite

The city of the "all-developable land": Strategies of the real state and new and unsustainable ways of urbanization. (2018). Ciudades, 08, 135-155. https://doi.org/10.24197/ciudades.08.2004.135-155