Abstract

How do communities understand the highly abstract process of housing financialization? In this paper we argue that walking tours offer the capacity to develop new forms of mobile, public education to learn about the capitalist urbanization process, especially as the financialization of housing accelerates. Based on walking the city of Manchester we show that this type of learning may improve public literacy concerning the opaque and extended ways in which housing in central areas has increasingly been shaped by new types of real estate finance. Although many people in Manchester have understood the outline of these dramatic transformations, and could connect the new skyscrapers to their struggles for everyday survival, there remained a gap in detailed literacy of the actors, finances and dynamics that had changed the city so quickly. We contextualize the rapidly changing global landscape of housing since the global financial crisis of 2008 before showing how these transformations have reshaped housing in Manchester. We then describe the motivations for developing the tour, and the details of the walk itself. We conclude by suggesting that the walking tour offers new types of possibility in necessary learning and subsequent action to address capitalist urbanization.

中文翻译：

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走在金融化的城市：通过流动普及教育应对资本主义城市化

摘要

社区如何理解住房金融化的高度抽象的过程？在本文中，我们认为徒步旅行提供了开发新形式的流动公共教育的能力，以了解资本主义的城市化进程，尤其是随着住房金融化的加速。基于在曼彻斯特市的漫步，我们表明，这种学习方式可以提高公众对不透明和扩展方式的认识，因为在这种方式下，中部地区的住房越来越受到新型房地产融资的影响。尽管曼彻斯特的许多人已经了解了这些巨大变化的轮廓，并且可以将新摩天大楼与他们的日常生存斗争联系起来，但演员的详细素养，财务状况和动态状况仍然存在差距，这种变化迅速改变了这座城市。我们将背景介绍自2008年全球金融危机以来迅速变化的全球住房格局，然后展示这些变革如何重塑了曼彻斯特的住房。然后，我们描述了开发游览的动机以及步行本身的细节。最后，我们建议徒步旅行为应对资本主义城市化的必要学习和后续行动提供了新的可能性。