Neoliberalizing spaces in the Philippines : suburbanization, transnational migration, and dispossession /

"Based on years of field research, this study examines the construction of urban and suburban space in the Philippines since a recent housing boom caused by an influx of wealth from returning Filipino migrants. It analyzes various developments, such as the rise of gated suburban communities and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ortega, Arnisson Andre, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]
Temas:
Real estate business > Philippines.
Public spaces > Philippines.
Suburbs > Philippines.
Gated communities > Philippines.
Return migration > Philippines.
Immobilier > Philippines.
Espaces publics > Philippines.
Banlieues > Philippines.
Communautés privées > Philippines.
Migration de retour > Philippines.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
Gated communities
Public spaces
Real estate business
Return migration
Suburbs
Philippines
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : placing dreams and building homes
  • The business of building a nation
  • Return, reside, reinvest : mapping the real estate boom
  • Neoliberalizing Manila's peri-urban fringe
  • Gated dreams and communities
  • Everyday life inside the gates : resistance, loss and risk
  • Volatile spaces in the peri-urban fringe, from the fields to the mountains
  • Metropolitan accumulation by peri-urban relocation
  • Conclusion : building dreams over dreams.

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