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    Old industrial spaces challenged by platformized value-capture 4.0
    In the 1980s, Switzerland’s Jura Arc region was a globally competitive ‘new industrial space’ in the Third Industrial Revolution’s flexible accumulation regime based on information and communication technology (ICT) and automation processes. Recently, this nowadays ‘old industrial space’ has been experiencing the implementation of Industry 4.0. Caught between the use of existing productive assets and the development of platform-based market ecosystems, this region illustrates the challenges inherent in implementing ‘forking innovation’, which requires the development not only of new business models, but also of collaborative and investment models in order to scale up and increase local value capture.
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    Urban Production from Manufacturing to Financialisation : the Case of China
    During the twentieth Century, urban production theories considered manufacturing as the main engine for development. Today, financialization of real estate as well as mobile consumer’s expenses have developed at a larger scale and play an increasing role. We argue that this shift affects the Global South as well as the Global North. The Chinese case shows the relevance of a territorial approach, taking into account the various processes of creating value and of how they interplay within the urban space. This approach makes it possible to understand why some cities/regions are more able to develop in relation to others.
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    Les multiples valeurs de l’immobilier en Suisse
    Comment fonctionne le marché de l’immobilier résidentiel aujourd’hui en Suisse ? De quelles clés de lecture disposons-nous pour appréhender ses valeurs d’usage, économique, esthétique dans toute leurs complexité et diversité ? A travers l’analyse des contextes, des acteurs, des circuits de financement et des formes urbaines, cet article propose une typologie renouvelée des multiples marchés qui façonnent le territoire.
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    From capital landing to urban anchoring: The negotiated City
    This article proposes three ideal types of ‘anchoring of finance capital into the city’, i.e. the way in which capital, as it is valued in financial markets, is transformed into real capital and vice versa. Some contexts will allow market finance s visions of the city to become reality without great alteration, and this produces the ‘financialised city’. In this case, the value of the city corresponds to trading on the financial markets and largely depends on the financial operators’ comparative and mimetic criteria. Second, the ‘entrepreneurial city’ corresponds to a tangible and localised vision of the city, outside the trading rooms. This requires interactions between intermediary and allied actors so that urban value can be translated into real profits and tangible urban objectives while mobilising market finance. Third, some contexts may promote debate, the creation of interdependencies and the genesis of multiple externalities, particularly around major urban development projects. This is what we call the ‘negotiated city’. Here, urban value depends much more directly, and more exclusively, on more or less complementary interactions between local and non-local actors, users, consumers, public actors, tourists, etc.
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    The Creation of Urban Value in China : The Case of the Modernization of Qujing City in Yunnan
    This article proposes an analytical framework around the concept of urban value creation in order to gain a transversal understanding of the various interactions between urban planning, the strategies of urban modernization and growth through the development of the local real estate market, and the local financial system. This framework comes from a reflexive and evolutive methodological research approach both based on existing literature and empirically founded. The urbanization process of the fourth-tier city of Qujing in Yunnan province can illustrate China’s “landed urbanization”, i.e. the value creation resulting from government strategies for growth and modernization based on land and real estate commodification. Such local government policies have been enabled due to a demand for urban property that has largely resulted from an investment rationale: both residential and non-residential properties have come to be seen as financial assets by the urban population. We argue that the construction of urban value can be approached through the strategies of four groups of actors that all demonstrate the behavior of an investor, based on conventions about the increase of urban value through economic growth and urban modernization. These four groups of actors are individuals, the local government, real estate companies and financial institutions, all of which are involved in the search for urban rent.
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    Industrie de fonds ISR et la construction de la "valeur financière durable"
    Avec son offre de fonds d’Investissement socialement responsable (ISR), l’industrie de la finance s’inscrit dans le mouvement général de « Développement durable » (DD). Toutefois, malgré la mise en place de dispositifs sociotechniques complexes pour évaluer la « responsabilité » des entreprises, la finance « durable » se heurte à de nombreuses limites. D’une part, la finance et le DD sont mûs par des logiques, des principes d’action et des spatialités complètement différents. D’autre part, seule une validation sociale de la « valeur durable » provenant des milieux non financiers serait à même d’évaluer la durabilité des activités économiques.
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    The real estate markets : Players, institutions and territories
    Revealing the parties, the processes and the institutions and, consequently, both the diversity and contingency of the real estate markets, the existing increasing literature emphasises the contemporary numerous links and interdependencies between real estate, land value, planning and town planning policy and even the financial system. This paper is an attempt to understand all the real estate markets, from the most peripheral ones, where the urban rent is the lowest, to the most dense city centres. To gain a better understanding of the real estate market, a process of firstly deconstruction and then reconstruction is used. The process of deconstruction involves identifying various market trends according to property type (principally residential buildings), players and institutions, territorial situations and temporalities based on research conducted in Switzerland. We then developed a meta-synthesis inspired by Fernand Braudel whose works put as much emphasis on day-to-day economic activity as on long-term activity, and on local as well as global issues.
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    The Real Estate Markets : Players, Institutions and Territories
    Revealing the parties, the processes and the institutions and, consequently, both the diversity and contingency of the real estate markets, the existing increasing literature emphasises the contemporary numerous links and interdependencies between real estate, land value, planning and town planning policy and even the financial system. However, the vast majority of this research only looks at major cities, neglecting other areas. The aim of this article is to gain a better understanding of the real estate market through a process firstly of deconstruction and then reconstruction. The process of deconstruction involves identifying various market trends according to property type (principally residential buildings), players and institutions, territorial situations and temporalities based on research conducted in Switzerland. We then developed a meta-synthesis inspired by Fernand Braudel whose works put as much emphasis on day-to-day economic activity as on long-term activity, and on local as well as global issues.
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    Sustainability and the Anchoring of Capital: Negotiations Surrounding Two Major Urban Projects in Switzerland
    Durabilité et ancrage du capital financier: négociations autour de deux grands projets urbains en Suisse, Regional Studies. Cet article aborde la question de l'ancrage du capital financier mobile dans la ville et la durabilité urbaine. Illustrée par une étude de cas en Suisse, il développe la thèse de l'apparition de nouvelles formes de négociations dans le cadre de projets urbains. Les entreprises de développement/construction jouent un rôle central: elles sont capables d'évaluer et de traduire les multiples dimensions d'un projet et certains enjeux de durabilité en termes financiers de manière à ce que l'ancrage du capital dans la ville puisse se réaliser. Parallèlement, la question de la durabilité dépend beaucoup de la capacité des acteurs locaux à négocier avec les promoteurs des projets urbains., Sustainability and the anchoring of capital: negotiations surrounding two major urban projects in Switzerland, Regional Studies. This article deals with the anchoring of mobile financial capital in the city and urban sustainability. Illustrated by a case study in the Swiss context, it develops the theory that new forms of negotiation are appearing around urban projects. Development/construction firms are playing a central role: they are capable of evaluating and translating the multiple dimensions of a project and certain sustainability challenges into financial terms, in a way that permits the anchoring of capital in the city. In parallel, the issue of sustainability depends greatly on the capacity of the local actors to negotiate with the promoters of urban projects., Nachhaltigkeit und die Verankerung von Kapital: Verhandlungen im Zusammenhang mit zwei großen urbanen Projekten in der Schweiz, Regional Studies. Themen dieses Beitrags sind die Verankerung von mobilem Finanzkapital in der Stadt sowie die urbane Nachhaltigkeit. Anhand einer Fallstudie aus der Schweiz wird die Theorie aufgestellt, dass im Umfeld von urbanen Projekten neue Formen der Verhandlung auftreten. Hierbei spielen Baufirmen eine zentrale Rolle: Sie sind in der Lage, die verschiedenartigen Dimensionen eines Projekts sowie bestimmte Nachhaltigkeitsprobleme zu bewerten und in finanzielle Begriffe zu übersetzen, was eine Verankerung von Kapital in der Stadt ermöglicht. Gleichzeitig hängt der Aspekt der Nachhaltigkeit in großem Umfang von der Fähigkeit der lokalen Akteure zur Verhandlung mit den Finanzierern von urbanen Projekten ab., Sostenibilidad y el fortalecimiento del capital: negociaciones en torno a dos importantes proyectos urbanos en Suiza, Regional Studies. Este artículo trata sobre el fortalecimiento del capital financiero móvil en la ciudad y la sostenibilidad urbana. A partir de un estudio de caso en el contexto suizo, desarrollamos la teoría de que están apareciendo nuevas formas de negociación en el marco de los proyectos urbanos. Las empresas de desarrollo/construcción desempeñan un papel principal: son capaces de evaluar y traducir las múltiples dimensiones de un proyecto y los diferentes retos de sostenibilidad en términos financieros, facilitando así el fortalecimiento del capital en la ciudad. A su vez, la cuestión de la sostenibilidad depende en gran medida de la capacidad de los actores locales para negociar con los promotores de proyectos urbanos.