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March 12, 2026AntipodeOpen Access

The City as an Anti‐Growth Machine

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PTPetter Törnberg

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Overview

Argues that restricting development increases returns in cities, suggesting a shift in urban economic dynamics.

Key Points

  • The goal is to analyze how urban growth dynamics have changed under financialized capitalism.
  • Analysis of historical urban growth frameworks
  • Examination of land use policies
  • Evaluation of coalition dynamics among homeowners and officials
  • Emergence of urban anti-growth coalitions blocking new construction
  • Increased treatment of urban land as a speculative asset
  • Link between manufactured scarcity and rising exclusion and inequality

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Petter Törnberg (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69b2587296eeacc4fcec812ehttps://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70145
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