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/Unexpected-Outcomes-Land-Ceilings-Rent-Control-and-the-Rise-of-Real-Estate-in.html https://metropolitics.org/Unexpected-Outcomes-Land-Ceilings-Rent-Control-and-the-Rise-of-Real-Estate-in.html 2025-12-09T06:00:00Z text/html en Nikhil Rao Bombay Mumbai rent control land ceilings real estate real-estate turn legislation governance <p>Paradoxically, Mumbai's neoliberal real-estate system has its origins in progressive legislation. <br class='autobr' /> ---- Series: Provincializing the “Real-Estate Turn” When the Phoenix Mills compound in central Mumbai reopened in 1999 after a long closure, the former textile factory complex featured a bowling alley and a nightclub. It bore the distinction of being the first mill compound in Mumbai's storied textile mill district—Girangaon, or the village of mills—to transform itself from a manufacturing space</p> - <a href="https://metropolitics.org/-Essays-.html" rel="directory">Essays</a> / <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Bombay-+.html" rel="tag">Bombay</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Mumbai-+.html" rel="tag">Mumbai</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-rent-control-+.html" rel="tag">rent control</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-land-ceilings-+.html" rel="tag">land ceilings</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/+-legislation-3094-+.html" rel="tag">legislation</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-governance-+.html" rel="tag">governance</a>