The political economy of land value capture in the UK: Rent and viability in Salford’s new municipalist turn

This paper contextualises the political economy of land value capture (LVC) within shift to an increasingly financialised, rentier-dominated capitalism. Contributing emerging dialogue between social constructivist planning literature on performativity in LVC and critical rents rentiership, we overview Salford's policy trajectory recent decades order highlight how UK system has been reconfigured as a mechanism increase values. In doing so, explore both neoliberal its municipal socialist counter-turn years, reflecting centrality latter still leaves it dependent rentier logics. locate these conjunctures governance dynamics Britain's transformation into economy; wherein stimulation, disbursement values have become central objects spatio-economic policy.