%0 Journal Article %@ 2833-115X %A Penny, Joe %A Horton, Amy %D 2024 %F discovery:10198750 %I Informa UK Limited %J Finance and Space %K Real estate, Local state, Financialisation, Race, Resistance %N 1 %P 406-412 %T Race, resistance and the speculative city: reflections from London %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198750/ %V 1 %X Internationally, speculative real estate development has become an increasingly central means for states to raise revenue and to govern urban space. This ‘speculative city’ regime is a product of the economic dominance of property investment and the financialisation of urban land; of state transformation across different scales; and of racialised hierarchies of urban citizenship. Challenging these forces is difficult. But, drawing on research in Tottenham, we identify how a broad community coalition successfully disrupted the speculative city – through a combination of tactics within and against the state. The ‘StopHDV’ campaign offers insights for actors seeking to contest racialised speculative urbanism. %Z This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.