Six Ways to Improve the Profitability of Lychee in South Florida by Edward Evans, Robert Degner, Kimberly Morgan

“… While the decision of whether to remain in the lychee business, shift to alternative enterprises, or sell the land to the real estate developers is a personal decision, this document offers some suggestions to growers on how to increase their returns from lychee. …”
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Rethinking the politics of vulnerability: neighborhood empowerment in Kansas City Missouri (USA) by Jacob Wagner

“…The paper presents data from historical patterns of racially-biased real estate practices, including redlining, and demonstrates how these patterns continue to shape the politics of vulnerability in the region today. …”
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Alpine tourism by Andrea Macchiavelli

“…The spectacular increase in tourism in the Alps in recent decades has been founded mainly on the boom in skiing, resulting in both strong real estate development and an increasing array of infrastructures and ski runs. …”
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Pursuing healthy homeownership: an evaluation of the neighborhood health trajectories of shared equity homeowners by Geoffrey M. Gusoff, Alex Ramiller, Arthur Acolin, Ruoniu Wang, Frederick J. Zimmerman

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Les trajectoires de conversion écologique face aux enjeux économiques et sociaux du « logement durable » en France by Philippe Hamman, Cécile Frank, Marie Mangold

“…In relation to the increasing real-estate business interested in sustainable housing, which frequently stresses a technical dimension closely linked with energy consumption and conservation, our research reveals a plurality of interconnected dynamics, according to a diversity of criteria (building materials, facilities, capacity for evolution, attractive features of the building, living environment, etc.). …”
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Le tourisme alpin by Andrea Macchiavelli

“…The spectacular increase in tourism in the Alps in recent decades has been founded mainly on the boom in skiing, resulting in both strong real estate development and an increasing array of infrastructures and ski runs. …”
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Solving global challenges locally. Collective housing as a catalyst for ecological transition by Andrés Cánovas, Javier De Andrés

“…This goal also requires the complicity of three key factors (or actors) related to the housing sector: the real estate sector, the legislation, and the users.   …”
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Migrantes Nordestinos na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo: características socioeconômicas e distribuição espacial by Maria das Neves Medeiros de Melo, Wilson Fusco

“…Particularly concentrated in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, a portion of the population born in the Northeast remained in the region of destination, despite the difficulties imposed by the selectivity of the labor market and the real estate market. Regarding this population, this study sought to identify socio-spatial characteristics that can be understood as result of the adaptation process to the changes observed in the destination region. …”
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Research, project, implementation. The case study of the former Riganti Tannery in Rome by Andrea Grimaldi, Valeria Sansoni

“…The subject of this contribution is the experience of research and design carried out on the former Riganti Tannery, a building complex annexed to Villa Poniatowski and part of the real estate heritage of the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome. …”
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Growth, Segregation and Displacement Mechanisms in the Peri-urban of Quito by Gustavo Durán, Marc Martí, Juan Mérida

“…This paper seeks a qualitative approach to the urban periphery of Quito with the purpose of investigating, in the context of the expansion process of the city, the possible effects of real-estate actions in the socio-spatial transformations of the traditional inhabitants of those areas where the urbanizing process intensified. …”
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O protagonismo do poder público na condominização residencial da cidade de Alfenas-MG by Lilian Mara de Castro Azevedo, Evânio dos Santos Braquinho

“…In addition to the theoretical reference, interviews were carried out with representatives of municipal public authorities and real estate developers. The analyzes indicate a strong interference of the State in the production of this fragmented urban space, evidencing a mercantile strategy not highlighted in the approaches on this theme. …”
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La diversification des trajectoires de métropolisation au sud du Vietnam by Khac Minh Tran

“…The rapid development of HCMC and Binh Duong is commonly based on a globalized industrialization, which leads to the creation of multiple industrial parks, and an emerging real estate sector, profoundly transforming the local landscape and economic structure. …”
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De la relégation à l’appropriation : (re)lire la citadinité à Khartoum au prisme de la transformation matérielle, sociale et symbolique de ses périphéries by Corten Pérez-Houis, Alice Franck

“…Starting from the material and morphological transformations of the Sudanese capital, we propose to study the relationship of its inhabitants to housing and the city, at the intersection of the processes of production of the city from above (logic of development plans, construction of social housing, strategies of real estate companies...), the practices of the inhabitants (strategy of accession to the property, residential trajectories...) and popular claims. …”
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Vulnerability and Housing Policies through the Lens of Anthropology. An Introduction by Giacomo Pozzi, Rita Ávila Cachado, Ana Luísa Micaelo

“…In particular, the ethnographies hosted in this Dossier explore the dense intersection between different configurations of social and political action, such as housing rights, residents’ responses to public policies, vulnerability, real estate politics, migration, forced evictions, infrastructures. …”
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Open innovation for property management in emergency and post-emergency pandemic regime by Massimo Lauria, Maria Azzalin

“…It is part of R&D program developed by BIG Srl – Academic spin-off of ‘Mediterranea’ of Reggio Calabria – aimed at innovative governance of real estate assets, that welcomes the challenge of managing buildings in an emergency and post-emergency regime from Covid-19. …”
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O consumo da habitação de luxo no espaço urbano parisiense by Andréa Rodrigues dos Santos

“…The understanding of this concept was provided in the readings from authors who worked the issue, through fieldwork and interviews in real estate marketing group responsible for these properties in Paris…”
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Planning Litigation in Ski Resorts as a Reflection of Territorial Conflicts in the French Northern Alps by Oriane Sulpice

“…For these resorts, the intensification of real estate production determines their ranking in the competition between recreational destinations. …”
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Rénovation urbaine post-industrielle et mise en ambiance méditerranéenne à Kawasaki : une rédemption par le pastiche ? by Denis Bocquet

“…Local authorities and two major real estate and commercial companies asked, at the end of the 1990s and following two decades of reflections on information technologies being a tool of urban revitalization, two foreign architects, Jon Jerde and Ricardo Bofill, to work on urban atmospheres. …”
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Déguerpissements et déplacements forcé à Addis-Abeba by Bezunesh Tamru

“…In a predominantly liberalized economy, Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital city, is experiencing urban beautification and real estate development operations politically labeled “as smart city”. …”
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Strong Nonagricultural Demand Keeps Agricultural Land Values Increasing by John E. Reynolds

“…Survey respondents included rural appraisers, farm lenders, real estate brokers, farm managers, land investors, county extension agents, personnel from the Farm Services Agency and the Natural Resource Conservation Service, county property appraisers, and other persons who develop and maintain information about rural land values in their areas. …”
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