Cultural effects on real estate market: an explanation of urbanization

This study investigates the Theory of Man in Consumer Behavior and Hofstede Cultural dimensions by providing deeper understanding of consumers‟ attitudes towards investment in real estate market to explain nowadays´ urbanization in different countries. After breaking down the Real estate market and RE investment process, the predictors are selected from Economic Activities, Real Estate Market, Risk and Limitation and Cultural Factors to explain the Urbanization phenomenon to reach the purpose of this paper. The result after conducting the Stepwise Regression shows there is connection among them. Together with „Real Estate Performance‟, represented by Rent Index and Property Right Index, „Cultural Index‟, represented by Uncertainty Avoidance Index and Indulgence Index, as well as other two factors from Consumer Behavior Theory- the Theory of Man are statistically significant for Urbanization.Este estudo investiga a Teoria do homem no comportamento do consumidor e as dimensões culturais de Hofstede, proporcionando uma compreensão mais profunda das atitudes dos consumidores relativamente ao investimento no mercado imobiliário para explicar a urbanização atual em diferentes países. Depois da quebra do mercado imobiliário e do processo de investimento imobiliário, os indicadores são seleccionados a partir de Atividades Económicas, Mercado Imobiliário, Risco e Limitação e dos Factores Culturais para explicar o fenómeno da urbanização para alcançar o objetivo deste trabalho. Após a realização do Stepwise, o resultado mostra que há ligação entre eles. Juntamente com o desempenho imobiliário, representado pelo Índice de Rendas e Índice de direito de propriedade, o índice cultural, representado pelo Índice de Incerteza e Prevenção e pelo Índice da Indulgência, bem como outros dois factores da Teoria do Comportamento do Consumidor – a Teoria do Homem é estatisticamente significativa para a urbanização

Unmet goals of tracking: within-track heterogeneity of students' expectations for

Educational systems are often characterized by some form(s) of ability grouping, like tracking. Although substantial variation in the implementation of these practices exists, it is always the aim to improve teaching efficiency by creating homogeneous groups of students in terms of capabilities and performances as well as expected pathways. If students’ expected pathways (university, graduate school, or working) are in line with the goals of tracking, one might presume that these expectations are rather homogeneous within tracks and heterogeneous between tracks. In Flanders (the northern region of Belgium), the educational system consists of four tracks. Many students start out in the most prestigious, academic track. If they fail to gain the necessary credentials, they move to the less esteemed technical and vocational tracks. Therefore, the educational system has been called a 'cascade system'. We presume that this cascade system creates homogeneous expectations in the academic track, though heterogeneous expectations in the technical and vocational tracks. We use data from the International Study of City Youth (ISCY), gathered during the 2013-2014 school year from 2354 pupils of the tenth grade across 30 secondary schools in the city of Ghent, Flanders. Preliminary results suggest that the technical and vocational tracks show more heterogeneity in student’s expectations than the academic track. If tracking does not fulfill the desired goals in some tracks, tracking practices should be questioned as tracking occurs along social and ethnic lines, causing social inequality

Mental Mapping the Transformation of Social Space in Rio\u27s Oldest Favela: Morro da Providência

Amid the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, strategic policy reforms at the federal, state, and municipal levels have reordered and re-purposed the social space of Rio’s favelas through the implementation of social and physical infrastructure. This research project contributes a geographical perspective to the ways in which fast-paced urbanization transforms and produces social space in Rio’s oldest favela, Morro da Providência. Based on Henri Lefebvre’s conceptual triad concerning the production of social space, this research uses mental mapping to understand the disparity between representations of conceived space and representational lived space. It also contributes to perceived social space through participant observations and discussions. The five-month long mental mapping project designed to assess the transformation of social space yielded several results. Methodologically, this research contributes to the literature on mental mapping by identifying three types of mental maps produced by my participants. Practically, this research contributes to the discourse concerning social and political integration within the favela-city binary. Ultimately, this project contributes a geographical perspective and methodology to the ways in which fast-paced urbanization can be successfully implemented as long-term solutions in the low-income and irregular communities in Rio de Janeiro

NeoTowns - Prototypes of corporate Urbanism: Examined on the basis of a new generation of New Towns - by the cases of Bumi Serpong Damai (Jakarta), Navi Mumbai (Mumbai) and Alphaville-Tamboré (São Paulo)

This research aims to contribute new insights to the question of the city as a venture, exploring the dynamics of privately driven urbanism. Broadly it seeks to reconfirm, up-date, and furnish the concept of spatial production (which was mainly developed in the 1960s and 1970s), in the context of global urbanisation as well as the framework of a new economy. It explores this general objective along three actual sites that reflect the impacts of privatisation in a most direct and unfettered way

Esa 12th Conference: Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination: Abstract Book

Esa 12th Conference: Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination: Abstract Boo