Anders Lund Hansen

Globalization of a commercial property market : the case of Copenhagen

The study examines globalization processes in property markets through an empirical investigation into the commercial property market of Greater Copenhagen. The focus is on investment in commercial properties. Globalization of property markets is defined, a framework of analysis presented and methodological problems reported. The analysis reveals a marked increase in the volumes and shares of foreign direct investment in the Copenhagen commercial property market between 1983 and 1995, after which there occurred a marked decrease. The findings also suggest that the greater part of globalization in this case is accounted for by expansionary cross-border regionalization. Furthermore, there are manifestations of change in the stock exchange indicative of increased securitization of the market, facilitating a new round of globalization in the Copenhagen commercial property market

COMMODIFYING DANISH HOUSING COMMONS

Abstract Housing was a backbone of the Danish welfare state, but this has been profoundly challenged by the past decades of neoliberal housing politics. In this article we outline the rise of the Danish model of association‐based housing on the edge of the market economy (and the state). From this, we demonstrate how homes in private cooperatives through political interventions in the context of a booming real estate market have plunged into the market economy and been transformed into private commodities in all but name, and we investigate how non‐profit housing associations frontally and stealthily are attacked through neoliberal reforms. This carries the seeds for socio‐spatial polarization and may eventually open the gate for commodification – and thus the dismantling of the little that is left of a socially just housing sector. Yet, while the association‐based model was an accessary to the commodification of cooperative housing, it can possibly be an accomplice in sustaining non‐profit housing as a housing commons.

Accumulation by Dispossession and Neoliberal Urban Planning: ‘Landing’ the Mega-Projects in Taipei

Even in the mist of the current global economic crises, there are no signs of neoliberal urbanism collapsing. East Asia is today one of the most animated scenes of rapid and dynamic urban growth. New Asian urbanism has therefore emerged as an important field of study for understanding contemporary global social and economic change. This chapter discusses how the shifts in urban politics in Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan, facilitate neoliberal planning from the end of 1980s onwards. This is done through an analysis of four large-scale urban development projects, which are closely related to the spatial restructuring and economic transformation of Taipei over the past 20 years. Our findings suggest that private property rights have been established as the most dominant right to the city, also in Taipei. Strategies of ‘flexible’ accumulation by dispossession through ‘land acquisition’ – i.e. land grabbing via privatisation of public land – and property development are key characteristics of contradictory neoliberal planning of contemporary East Asian urbanism.

INTRODUCTION: NEOLIBERALISM AND POST‐WELFARE NORDIC STATES IN TRANSITION

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SSRI use in pregnancy: A study in 6 European databases

BOOKLET Arch Womens Ment Health (2015) 18:269–408 DOI 10.1007/s00737-014-0488-6

Doctoral dissertations in human geography from Swedish universities 1884-2015: demographics, formats and productivity

ABSTRACT The doctoral dissertation is a key component of postgraduate education that plays an important role for knowledge production and hence the development of a discipline. Swedish human geography currently lacks an overview of dissertations. This article fills this knowledge gap by reporting findings from a unique database covering all doctoral dissertations between 1884 and 2015. The paper focuses on the demographics of the authors (age, gender), the format of the dissertation and explores productivity variations for authors of compilation dissertations. The findings show a notable increase in the number of doctoral dissertations since the late 1960s but a decreasing share of doctoral dissertations in the social sciences since the 1970s. In terms of demographics, we show that while the age of the authors remains relatively stable, the gender-balance has improved considerably. In terms of format, the monograph has rapidly given way to compilation dissertations, which now account for half the number of dissertations. More than 70% of all dissertations are now published in English. Statistical results suggest that the likelihood of completing a compilation dissertation is greater if the doctoral candidate is young and if attending Umeå University. But individual author productivity for compilation dissertations is mainly influenced by unobservables.

Last Stand or Renewed Urban Activism? The Copenhagen Youth House Uprising, 2007

In the annual Freedom House report on the status of democracy around the world, Denmark, as usual, scored a clean 1.0, the highest possible rating for the year 2007. However, the Freedom House also noted ‘during the year, the demolition of a youth center in Copenhagen’s Norrebro district sparked a series of riots leading to hundreds of arrests’ (Freedom House, 2008). The center was the so-called Youth House that since 1982 had been an important free space for the autonomous squatter movement and other alternative milieus in the city. In the early morning of 1 March 2007 the Youth House was besieged by a large police force, including helicopter-borne elite units that landed on the rooftop of the squatted and well-barricaded building. After 57 minutes of fighting from floor to floor, the last of the 36 defenders of the Youth House succumbed to water-cannon jets, exploding teargas grenades, and the increasing number of elite units who flocked into the building through bulldozer-made holes in the outer walls. Soon, numerous Youth House followers, alarmed by the breaking news-casts from all the important Danish TV stations, began to gather and build barricades in the streets throughout the district. When the rioting ebbed three days later, thousands of outraged people had taken part in protests, the burning of scores of cars, and clashes with the nationwide police force that had resorted to repeated rounds of teargas, more than 800 arrests, and even a temporary curfew. This was, in the words of the Ritzau news agency,’ some of the worst unrest in Copenhagen ever’. As a consequence, the March 2007 events in Copenhagen can be seen as a temporary form of urban uprising. For a short while, the unrest challenged the prevailing social order, suggesting, ‘there is something political in the city air struggling to be expressed’ (Harvey, 2012, p. 117).

SSRI use in pregnancy

BOOKLET Arch Womens Ment Health (2015) 18:269–408 DOI 10.1007/s00737-014-0488-6

New York for sale: community planning confronts global real estate

One is that it is unrealistic to expect private capital fully to fund the infrastructure on public waterfronts—public investment is required. Such investment of course brings more public scrutiny, yet Brown holds to the view that lack of autonomy is the problem even after he demonstrates that such autonomy is inevitably eroded and does not deliver successful outcomes. In every one of his case studies, success has been limited by the structural contradictions in which quasi-public port authorities are enmeshed. The book demonstrates one thing, yet the author concludes another. I am left with the view that perhaps the best outcomes are in cities like San Francisco where the least change has occurred and where the opportunity remains for a more enlightened generation to redevelop in a much more imaginative and public-spirited manner.