Month: March 2019

Title:	Religion, Commons and the Urban Question
Date:	11 Jun 2019
Time:	16:00 – 17:30
Venue:	AS8, Level 4, Seminar Room 04-04 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260 National University of Singapore @ KRC

In this seminar we will discuss the importance of land tenure in producing just and liveable cities. Particularly we are interested in non-commodified land and the land that is managed by residents or managed by faith-based organisations (Christian Church, Buddhist temples and waqf land). The question we ask, are these tenure types better than private ownership in reducing urban inequalities, preventing land speculation, stopping gentrification, making possible producing affordable housing, and supporting the community. We will present some preliminary results of our project investigating Alternatives to private landownership.

Link: https://ari.nus.edu.sg/Event/Detail/847516ba-94db-4990-aa7e-3302dcc3225f

Anne Haila is Academy Professor and Professor of Urban Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. From 1994 to 1996 she was Senior Fellow at Faculty of Architecture and Building, National University of Singapore. In recent years, her research has focussed on property rights, property markets and the role of state intervention in regulating property market. Cases of her research have been particularly Singapore, Finland, China and Hong Kong. Among her publications are: Urban Land Rent: Singapore as a Property State, Wiley Blackwell 2016, The market as the new emperor, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2007, Real estate in global cities: Singapore and Hong Kong as property states, Urban Studies, 2000, and Four types of investment in land and property, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 1991.

Mika Hyötyläinen’s doctoral thesis, Divided by Policy: Urban Inequality in Finland, investigates the roles of land and housing policies in the material and symbolic inequalities of Finnish cities. His scholarly interests reside in the realm of critical urban studies. gentrification, territorial stigmatization, urban commons and land and housing policies are some of the topics Mika explores.

Sefer Kahraman is a researcher in Urban Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. His thesis discusses urban transit transformations in Chiang Mai, Thailand. His education in comparative urban studies focuses on the land question and the scholarly discussion around Southeast Asia. His interests include different property ownership understandings and practices based on cultural values, religion and language in the Global South.

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