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> https://metropolitics.org/Russia-s-Authoritarian-Modernization-Through-Urbanization-What-Lessons-Can-Be.html https://metropolitics.org/Russia-s-Authoritarian-Modernization-Through-Urbanization-What-Lessons-Can-Be.html 2024-06-28T05:00:00Z text/html en Vladimir Pawlotsky & translated by Oliver Waine urban project authoritarian regime globalization Moscow metropolis Russia <p>Can the recent New Moscow urban development project shed light on the political, economic and demographic issues of contemporary Russia? Vladimir Pawlotsky questions the “authoritarian modernization” at the origin of this project, which has seen the Russian capital more than double in area. <br class='autobr' /> Far from the ever more numerous warmongering diatribes he has been known for since 2022 and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, during his presidency (2008-2012) Dmitri Medvedev promoted the modernization of his</p> - <a href="https://metropolitics.org/-From-the-Field-15-.html" rel="directory">From the Field</a> / <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-urban-project-+.html" rel="tag">urban project</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-authoritarian-regime-+.html" rel="tag">authoritarian regime</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-globalization-+.html" rel="tag">globalization</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Moscow-+.html" rel="tag">Moscow</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-metropolis-+.html" rel="tag">metropolis</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Russia-+.html" rel="tag">Russia</a>