Bridge the Rent Gap conference
Thursday, 11 April, 2024
CDIC Lecturer, Dr. Yunpeng Zhang will co-organize the 'Bridge the Rent Gap' online lecture series in April and May 2024. The lecture series aims to broaden the debates on the dynamics of land markets, urban processes, and land struggles using examples from diverse contexts, with a focus on the Global South/Global East. The series will feature three lectures on China, providing insights into China's urban (re)development practices.
The conference layout below:
April 22 (UK)/23 (Australia) -- Matthew Richmond (LSE, UK) & Jeff Garmany (Melbourne University, Australia)
Title: Rent gaps, gentrification and the ‘two circuits’ of Latin American urban economies
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April 29 -- Violaine Jolivet (Université de Montréal, Canada)
Title: Havana’s transnational gentrification: Highest and best use from elsewhere
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May 8 -- Ivo Gasic (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile)
Title: Disentangling land financialisation: Insights from Santiago de Chile’s land lease-purchase contracts
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May 14 - Hao Gu (Hunan University)
Title: Expanding Frontiers of Commercial Gentrification: Rent Gap and Sequential Gentrification in Taikoo Li of Chengdu, China
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May 21 -- Selim Banabak (TU Wien, Vienna, Austria)
Title: Closing the Rent Index Gap – A quantitative approach to rental-sector gentrification
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May 23 -- Thomas Sigler (University of Queensland, Australia)
Title: Spatio-temporal variation in the bid–rent functions of long-term and short-term rentals: Evidence from South-East Queensland, Australia
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May 28 -- Cheng Liu (China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China)
Title: Is China making the rent gap theory untrue? Lessons from Nanjing
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May 31 --Chunhui Liu (Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China)
Title: Who Cashed the Rent Gap? An Alternative Narration
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