https://metropolitics.org/ Favoriser les débats et confronter les savoirs et les savoir-faire sur la ville, l'architecture et les territoires. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://metropolitics.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH20/siteon0-bf96f.png?1760617828 https://metropolitics.org/ 20 144 https://metropolitics.org/Urban-Theory-and-the-Cold-War-Reflections-on-the-Political-Economy-of-Urban.html https://metropolitics.org/Urban-Theory-and-the-Cold-War-Reflections-on-the-Political-Economy-of-Urban.html 2025-11-07T06:05:00Z text/html en Gavin Shatkin real estate real-estate turn Asia Southeast Asia authoritarian regime Cold War Thailand Indonesia Cambodia Laos The Philippines <p>The Cold War's repressive politics of land and law still underpin the region's contemporary struggles over land rights, urban space and democracy. <br class='autobr' /> ---- Series: Provincializing the “Real-Estate Turn” When the non-governmental organization Jakarta Legal Aid sought a legal avenue to confront the Indonesian state over its use of summary eviction as a tool of urban planning, it focused on a Cold War‑era law, Law 51/1960. Commonly used to justify evictions of settlements for urban infrastructure</p> - <a href="https://metropolitics.org/-Essays-.html" rel="directory">Essays</a> / <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-real-estate-+.html" rel="tag">real estate</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-real-estate-turn-+.html" rel="tag">real-estate turn</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Asia-+.html" rel="tag">Asia</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Southeast-Asia-+.html" rel="tag">Southeast Asia</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-authoritarian-regime-+.html" rel="tag">authoritarian regime</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Cold-War-+.html" rel="tag">Cold War</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Thailand-+.html" rel="tag">Thailand</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Indonesia-+.html" rel="tag">Indonesia</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Cambodia-+.html" rel="tag">Cambodia</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Laos-+.html" rel="tag">Laos</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-The-Philippines-+.html" rel="tag">The Philippines</a>