ORA (Round 5) What is Governed in Cities: Residential Investment Landscapes and the Governance and Regulation of Housing Production

本建议采用一种精确的比较、跨学科的方法来研究当代流入主要城市住房市场的投资与旨在规范这些投资的治理安排和公共政策工具之间的相互关系。我们的案例研究是欧洲三个主要的城市中心：阿姆斯特丹大都会区；大伦敦;和大巴黎。在各大城市面临前所未有的发展压力之际，这一建议来得正是时候。它们的人口和经济已经扩大，它们的环境已成为全球和国家金融投资的极具吸引力的地点。这些压力在住房的生产和消费方面尤为严重，投资对市场、公民和地方的影响正在产生一种普遍认为的“危机”，并为政策制定者和规划者带来了一系列新的挑战。为了使城市保持其增长并满足其公民的需要，为各种群体提供负担得起的住房的紧迫性日益增加。解决不了住房问题，不仅会限制未来的增长潜力，还会成为社会冲突和不满的根源。该建议采用了两种分析方法。首先，我们考察了投资格局以及旨在控制它们的法规和政策工具的有效性。我们这样做是系统的，比较的。其次，我们分析了塑造房地产市场的投资类型及其对人和地方的影响。我们将探讨其来源、目标和设计结果。在不同社会经济群体之间不断升级的政治紧张局势和重大的全球经济和社会变化的背景下，这项研究满足了对市场、计划控制和公民生活质量之间复杂关系的更好理解的日益迫切的需要。

This proposal draws on a precise comparative, inter-disciplinary methodology to examine the inter-relationships between contemporary investment flows into the housing markets of major cities and the governance arrangements and public policy instruments that are designed to regulate them. Our case studies are three of Europe's leading urban centres: the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area; Greater London; and Grand Paris. The proposal is timely as major cities have been faced with unprecedented development pressures. Their populations and economies have expanded and their envrionments have become highly attractive locations for global and national financial investment. These pressures have been particularly acute in the production and consumption of housing, where the impacts of investments on markets, citizens, and places are generating a widely perceived 'crisis' and set of new challenges for policy-makers and planners. There is a growing urgency to produce affordable housing for a variety of groups in order for cities to maintain their growth and to meet the needs of their citizens. A failure to tackle housing problems will both limit future growth potential and act as a source of social conflict and discontent. The proposal draws on two streams of analysis. First we examine investment landscapes and the effectiveness of regulations and policy instruments that are designed to control them. We do this systematically and comparatively. Second we analyse the types of investment that are shaping housing markets and their impacts on people and places. We explore its sources, objectives, and designed outcomes.The research meets an increasingly urgent need to develop better understandings of the complex relationships between markets, planning controls, and the quality of life of citizens in a context of escalating political tensions between different socio-economic groups and major global economic and social changes.