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The Textures of Property Markets: Downtown Housing and Office Conversions in New York City

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  • Robert A. Beauregard

    (Milano Graduate School, New School University, 72 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011, USA, Beauregr@newschool.edu)

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Over the past 10-15 years, many cities in the US have experienced a form of development unknown since World War II-middle-income housing in their downtown cores. Such downtown housing initiatives assume that functional interdependence among different property sectors-office, residential, retail, entertainment-will ensue and that the resultant, co-ordinated investments will produce a lively and attractive downtown environment. This article explores the impediments to this synergism using a perspective that emphasises the 'thicknesses' of property markets; that is, the social, institutional and place-specific qualities of real estate investment. New York City's lower Manhattan revitalisation plan, designed to subsidise office conversions, is used as an example.

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  • Robert A. Beauregard, 2005. "The Textures of Property Markets: Downtown Housing and Office Conversions in New York City," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 42(13), pages 2431-2445, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:42:y:2005:i:13:p:2431-2445
    DOI: 10.1080/00420980500380345
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