2015
DOI: 10.1515/zfw.2015.0003
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Die Macht der Zahlen

Abstract: The power of figures. Calculative practices in the real estate industry. This article examines the role and importance of calculative practices in the process of establishing a global property market. We argue that these practices have contributed to the transformation of the property market into a calculable relation which makes it possible to perceive and assess the real estate market and its objects internationally. Comparability - which includes the transformation of social, political and economic conditio… Show more

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“…Firstly, standards are discussed in the context of marketization processes (Berndt and Boeckler, 2012), as they provide the necessary social, technical, and calculative infrastructures for markets to function (Heeg and Bitterer, 2015). Standards are thus a central part of markets infrastructures, understood here with MacKenzie as ‘the social, cultural, and technical conditions that make [markets] possible’ (MacKenzie, 2005: 12; see also Bitterer and Heeg, 2015; Knox-Hayes, 2013), including, for instance, financial institutions, buildings, norms, knowledge, technological devices, or social networks. Standards, it is argued, are pivotal for these infrastructures, through their ‘capacity to enhance coordination’ (Botzem and Dobusch, 2012: 737).…”
Section: Cities As Sites and Targets Of Financialized Global Developmmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Firstly, standards are discussed in the context of marketization processes (Berndt and Boeckler, 2012), as they provide the necessary social, technical, and calculative infrastructures for markets to function (Heeg and Bitterer, 2015). Standards are thus a central part of markets infrastructures, understood here with MacKenzie as ‘the social, cultural, and technical conditions that make [markets] possible’ (MacKenzie, 2005: 12; see also Bitterer and Heeg, 2015; Knox-Hayes, 2013), including, for instance, financial institutions, buildings, norms, knowledge, technological devices, or social networks. Standards, it is argued, are pivotal for these infrastructures, through their ‘capacity to enhance coordination’ (Botzem and Dobusch, 2012: 737).…”
Section: Cities As Sites and Targets Of Financialized Global Developmmentioning
confidence: 99%