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Logistics real estate is a type of property rarely covered in the existing literature on the financialisation of property markets. The emergence of specialised international real estate firms, which act as developers, investors and property fund managers, means that the logistics real estate industry has taken a unique financialisation path. The present article explains the specific features of the financialisation of the logistics real estate industry and contributes to the understanding of the financialisation of outer-suburban governance. Based on a qualitative analysis of the European logistics real estate market and case studies conducted in the Greater Paris region, the article combines an analysis of the sociotechnical mediations of financial circuits in the logistics built environment with the study of emerging local public–private coalitions formed to develop logistics zones. As such, it will be seen that the domination of integrated global firms in logistics real estate depends on their capacity to form local coalitions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores caring relations between child characters and sentient animals in two tales by Australian author-illustrator Shaun Tan. Each of Tan's 15 Tales from Outer Suburbia are set in an "outer" suburban world replete with curious critters. These include a silent and stoic water buffalo, an unmoving dugong (manatee), and other surprising companion species. In this article, the author unpacks the caring relationships between child protagonists and the sentient creatures they encounter in two selected tales by focusing specifically on those processes that bring these characters together in curious encounters: that is, processes of embodied mapping. Emphasis is placed on enchantment and movement, and, in particular, moments given to pausing, lingering, and reflection. The author argues that both the fields of human-animal studies and the social studies of childhood can gain from exploration of the subtleties of these moments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The multiplication of logistics establishments in the outer suburbia of large urban regions is embedded in a diversity of public actions in these spaces: transport facilities, land development and building permits. Thus, this economic development supposes a strong interdependence between economic and political spheres. This interdependence is at the heart of “urban regimes” approach (Stone, 1989) and echoes the concepts of “development regimes” (Stone, 1993) and “growth coalitions” (Logan, Molotch, 1987). Thus, this paper proposes to apply these approaches and concepts to the case of the outer suburbia of large urban regions concerned by the logistics industry development. This way, it calls for reopening the issue of the transposition of these theories from the American cities to the European cities (Le Galès, 1995) by linking the analysis of the public capacities of local governments with the analysis of the modalities of involvement of private economic actors in local public actions in the context of the financialization of commercial real estate and governance discontinuities. Eventually, through this lens, quite stable public-private coalitions which are dominated by the logistics property firms appear in the outer suburbia of the Paris city-region, which leads to a silent privatization of the production of logistics spaces.

Previous research done in the context of a PhD dissertation showed how gaining access to property in outer suburban areas can prove to be disappointing, even painful, to lower-middle-class families living on one income. The study highlighted a major gap between the aspirations of the middle class and the reality witnessed on the ground, a gap that often brought about a feeling of being stalled in life. The study is reexamined in this paper through an analysis of three suburban housing sectors. This contribution thus highlights growingly complex lifestyles tantamount to a recomposition of suburban societies. The influence of life experience and individual logics is shown through the limits and potentialities of the suburban experience as well as the integrative strength of suburban housing. Relations do emerge, however, in that as in previous surveys those with a low income also face more problems when settling in suburban areas. More generally, this reanalysis allows questioning anew both the evolution of suburban spaces – most notably those that, at some point, face stigma, precariousness and depreciation – and the role played by such spaces in reshaping metropolitan areas, particularly in terms of city-suburb relations.