Walls, Michael; Marx, Colin; Jama, Jama Musse; (2022) Urban Land Markets as Spatial Justice. Trialog , 4/2019 (139) pp. 5-10.

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A common view is that urban land markets subtract from, or subvert, spatial justice in cities, with spatial justice thus a definable outcome of market functions. This article explores urban land markets as spatial justice, which is multi-dimensional and subjective and integral to the functioning of markets. Seen from this perspective, urban land markets present a very particular way in which the ‚happening‘ of spatial justice unfolds. Thinking of urban land markets in this way offers considerable value to being able to grasp the ways in which they both configure and constitute spatial justice, and thus broadens our understanding of their emancipatory or conservative potential in urban development. While a distributional understanding of justice represents a fundamental tenet of much progressive thinking, in which the fairness of outcome is seen as fundamentally more important than that of the process, we argue that there is considerable benefit in viewing spatial justice as a process of the struggle to lay claim to place or space. Viewed this way, urban land markets represent a key context within which that struggle occurs, but interventions designed to improve spatial justice must focus on the social relations that inform that struggle as much or more than on land markets themselves.

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