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Finance Capital, Actor-Network Theory and the Struggle Over Calculative Agencies in the Business Property Markets of Mexico City Metropolitan Region

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Pages 516-529 | Received 01 Feb 2012, Published online: 20 Feb 2013
 

Abstract

David L. and Halbert L. Finance capital, actor-network theory and the struggle over calculative agencies in the business property markets of Mexico City Metropolitan Region, Regional Studies. The selective spatialities of business property in the Mexico City Metropolitan Region are explained with reference to actor-network theory. Building on a conception of markets as the outcomes of the confrontation between different calculative agencies, the paper discusses how investment managers have to negotiate the integration of new buildings and spaces into their portfolios alongside pre-existing actor-networks whose power and autonomy differ across the metropolitan area. In a fragmented city-region, the longstanding urban coalition in the central part of the area may lock out the business property development market to finance capital while some peripheral areas may be more opened up.

David L. and Halbert L. 金融资本、行动者网络理论,以及墨西哥市都会区域商业不动产市场中精于算计的行动者争夺,区域研究。本研究将根据行动者网络理论,解释墨西哥市都会区商业不动产的选择性空间。本文建构在将市场视为精于算计的不同行动者之间的冲突结果的概念之上,探讨投资经理人如何必须在都会区中权力和自主性不等的既有行动者网络中,将新的建案与空间协商整合进他们的投资组合。在破碎的城市–区域中,中心地带存在已久的都市联盟会将商业不动产发展的市场限定给金融资本,而边缘地带则对其他资本较为开放。

David L. et Halbert L. Le capital financier, la théorie de l'acteur-réseau et la lutte contre les agences de calcul sur les marchés de l'immobilier commercial dans la zone métropolitaine de Mexico City, Regional Studies. On cherche à expliquer les spatialités sélectives de l'immobilier commercial de la zone métropolitaine de Mexico City par rapport à la théorie de l'acteur-réseau. En s'appuyant sur la notion de marchés en tant que le résultat de l'affrontement entre des agences de calcul différentes, l'article discute comment les gestionnaires de placements doivent négocier l'intégration des nouveaux bâtiments et espaces dans leurs portefeuilles en même temps que les acteurs-réseaux préexistants, dont la puissance et l'autonomie varient à travers la zone métropolitaine. Dans une cité-région morcelée, il se peut que la coalition de développement urbain de longue date située dans la partie centrale de la zone puisse empêcher les marchés de l'immobilier commercial quant au capital financier, tandis que certaines zones périphériques pourraient s'avérer plus ouvertes.

David L. und Halbert L. Finanzkapital, Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie und der Kampf über kalkulierende Handlungsträgerschaften im Markt der gewerblichen Immobilien der Metropolregion von Mexiko-Stadt, Regional Studies. Unter Bezug auf die Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie erklären wir die selektiven Räumlichkeiten von gewerblichen Immobilien in der Metropolregion von Mexiko-Stadt. Aufbauend auf einer Auffassung der Märkte als Ergebnisse der Konfrontation zwischen verschiedenen kalkulierenden Handlungsträgerschaften wird erörtert, wie Investment-Manager die Integration von neuen Gebäuden und Räumen in ihre Portfolios gemeinsam mit bereits vorhandenen Akteur-Netzwerken, deren Macht und Autonomie im Metropolgebiet unterschiedlich ausfällt, bewältigen müssen. In einer fragmentierten Stadtregion kann die seit langem bestehende urbane Koalition im Zentralbereich des Gebiets dazu führen, dass der Markt zur Erschließung von gewerblichen Immobilien keinen Zugang zu Finanzkapital erhält, während einige Randgebiete stärker geöffnet werden.

David L. y Halbert L. Capital financiero, teoría de redes de actores y la lucha sobre las agencias calculadoras en los mercados de la propiedad comercial en la región metropolitana de la ciudad de México, Regional Studies. Explicamos las espacialidades selectivas de la propiedad comercial en la región metropolitana de la ciudad de México con referencia a la teoría de redes de actores. Basándonos en la concepción de los mercados como resultados de la confrontación entre diferentes agencias calculadoras, en este artículo analizamos cómo los gestores de inversión tienen que negociar la integración de nuevos edificios y espacios en sus carteras junto con las redes de actores ya existentes cuyo poder y autonomía difieren en toda el área metropolitana. En una región metropolitana fragmentada, la coalición urbana tradicional en la parte central del área puede bloquear el acceso de capital financiero al mercado del desarrollo de propiedades comerciales mientras que algunas áreas periféricas pueden abrirse más.

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Notes

1. MCMR refers to the area defined by the Secretaria del Medio Ambiante del Gobierno Federal as the ‘Zona Metropolitana de Valle de México’. It includes the sixteen delegations of the Federal District (FD), fifty-nine municipalities of the State of Mexico, and the municipality of the State of Hidalgo.

2. The authors focused on TFIs, including pension funds, investment funds, private equity funds and real estate investment trusts which invest in business property markets in the MCMR as part of their global investment strategy.

3. Panel sobre tendencias del mercado inmobiliario industrial en México, organized by the Urban Land Institute and the Association of Industrial Parks (AMPIP), 13 September 2006).

4. Santa Fe is a business district that was designed in the 1970s and which took off in the 1990s.

5. See http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/ (accessed on 27 September 2012).

6. Carlos Slim, through his firm Grupo Carso, has been the principal investor and developer of emerging real estate markets within Mexico City since the 2000s. His projects include the redevelopment of the historical centre of Mexico City, development in Nezahualcoyotl (Ciudad Jardin) and New Polanco (Plaza Carso).

7. El Chapo Guzman, one of the most wanted Mexican drug dealers, is believed to be the tenth Mexican billionaire.

8. On the one hand, the central city is more compact and standardised – in terms of property rights – with a structure that allows it to collect 610 pesos/inhabitant/year; on the other hand, the metropolitan periphery attracts industry and large numbers of people, many of whom are low earners, do not pay taxes and live in low quality socio-spatial conditions. That is why it is not surprising that in 2000 the State of Mexico only collected an average of 66 pesos/habitant/year.

(Iracheta Cenecorta, Citation2004, p. 550)

9. Between 1,500 million and 2 million buildings are bought and sold in Mexico every year. 30% of these (between 450 and 600 million) did not have the correct, sufficient and necessary documentation. This subsequently poses problems for the owners and other parties interested in acquiring such properties.

(Lino, Citation2011, p. 1A)

10. An ejido is collective land owned by rural families. This legal status dates from the 1910 agrarian reform. A 1994 reform allows the purchase of ejido after a complex process in which each owner has to agree on the proposed sale.

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