Real-estate valuation and the organization of the city: a document-centred ethnography of Tel Aviv's planning in action

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Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-05-05 DOI:10.1108/JOE-10-2020-0038

Uri Ansenberg

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Abstract

PurposeThe increasing financialization of urban organization has been well-documented over the last couple of decades. Nevertheless, the planning process has been seen as distinct from the financial. By questioning this assumption and examining where the two spheres interact, this paper argues that the enmeshment of finance and planning produces an overlapping of the two, which refuses any attempt of demarcation.Design/methodology/approachBy focussing on a specific type of document, the Standard-21, around which a large proportion of the Israeli construction is planned, assembled and committed, this article proposes a view of urban organization which highlights the centrality of real-estate valuation, as a practice of prediction and estimation, in the creation of the urban landscape.FindingsThe rationale of city planning is reframed as a financial process, a representation informed by an ethnographic study of the valuation practice.Originality/valueThe literature on urban financialization is rarely based on ethnographies. Answering the growing calls for an ethnographic perspective, this paper offers a novel account of the city and as a result produces a view of the interplay between finance and planning that was previously unnoticed.

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房地产估价和城市组织：以文件为中心的特拉维夫行动规划民族志

目的在过去的几十年里，城市组织日益金融化的现象已经得到了充分的证明。然而，规划过程被视为不同于财务过程。通过质疑这一假设，并考察这两个领域在哪里相互作用，本文认为，财政和规划的纠缠产生了两者的重叠，这拒绝了任何划分的尝试。设计/方法论/方法通过关注一种特定类型的文件，即标准-21，以色列的大部分建筑都是围绕该文件进行规划、组装和承诺的，本文提出了一种城市组织观，强调了房地产估价作为一种预测和估计实践在城市景观创建中的中心地位。发现城市规划的基本原理被重新定义为一个财务过程，一个由估价实践的人种学研究所提供的代表。关于城市金融化的文献很少以民族志为基础。为了回应日益增长的民族志视角的呼声，本文对这座城市进行了新颖的描述，从而产生了一种以前未被注意到的金融和规划之间相互作用的观点。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Organizational Ethnography (JOE) has been launched to provide an opportunity for scholars, from all social and management science disciplines, to publish over two issues: -high-quality articles from original ethnographic research that contribute to the current and future development of qualitative intellectual knowledge and understanding of the nature of public and private sector work, organization and management -review articles examining the history and development of the contribution of ethnography to qualitative research in social, organization and management studies -articles examining the intellectual, pedagogical and practical use-value of ethnography in organization and management research, management education and management practice, or which extend, critique or challenge past and current theoretical and empirical knowledge claims within one or more of these areas of interest -articles on ethnographically informed research relating to the concepts of organization and organizing in any other wider social and cultural contexts.