Les acteurs des marchés financiers font-ils la ville ? Vers un agenda de recherche.

The paper questions the role of financial capital investors on the production of the urban built environment in France. It first describes the growing diffusion of finance capital in numerous urban objects, before discussing the potential effects on urban production processes. In acknowledging what remains an under-researched topic in economic geography and planning in France, the paper details several proposals for a research agenda that looks into the spatialities and power struggles associated to the growing role of finance [...]