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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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    Finance de marché et fonds d’investissement durables : la coupure au territoire
    Cet article s’inscrit en géographie de la finance et montre, à l’aide de diverses études de cas, comment l’industrie financière, en s’appropriant le concept de développement durable de manière particulière, a construit sa propre approche de la « valeur financière durable » dans le cadre des fonds d’investissement socialement responsable (ISR). Il explique la manière dont l’industrie financière auto-valide son action en matière de finance « durable » par le recours à des organisations (agences de notation extra-financière et ONGs), des personnalités (experts, leaders d’opinion) ou des institutions (organisations internationales) qui, par leur réputation ou leur position, légitiment la « valeur durable ». Or, si ces acteurs parviennent à animer le débat médiatique, scientifique et politique, ils restent largement sous l’influence de l’industrie financière et ne remettent pas en cause l’essence même des produits financiers, la coupure au territoire. L’absence de territorialisation et de contextualisation territoriale empêchent toute approche forte de la durabilité, fondée sur les acteurs locaux et une opérationnalisation sur un territoire donné.
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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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    Industrie de fonds ISR et la construction de la "valeur financière durable"
    (Neuchâtel Université de Neuchâtel Institut de sociologie, 2015) ; ;
    Avec son offre de fonds d’Investissement socialement responsable (ISR), l’industrie de la finance s’inscrit dans le mouvement général de «Développement durable». 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 mus par des logiques, des principes d’action et les 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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    Accès libre
    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 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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    Sustainability and the Anchoring of Capital: Negotiations Surrounding Two Major Urban Projects in Switzerland
    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.
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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.