Comparing the relational work of developers

摘要

In downtown Johannesburg, daring entrepreneurs have found that they can profitably reintroduce previously abandoned high-rise buildings back into the market by converting them into working-class rental accommodation (Mosselson, 2019). New markets have also been 'discovered' on the city's periphery where owners of historically agricultural land supply entry-level detached housing to first-time black homeowners (Butcher, 2019). In the north east of the city, a Shanghai-based firm - attempting to diversify away from the flagging Chinese property market - bought an undeveloped site and planned to build a 'new city' for middle-class residents and commerce (Ballard and Harrison, 2019). Meanwhile, city authorities have worked to attract affordable housing developers into transit-oriented corridors in central parts of the city (Todes and Robinson, 2019).