Capital City - Gentrification and the Real Estate State Stein SamuelPaperback
"This superbly succinct and incisive book couldn't be more timely or urgent." --Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the MapOur cities are changing. Around the world, more and more money is being…
Specifikacia Capital City - Gentrification and the Real Estate State Stein SamuelPaperback
"This superbly succinct and incisive book couldn't be more timely or urgent." --Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the MapOur cities are changing. Around the world, more and more money is being invested in buildings and land. Real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, worth thirty-six times the value of all the gold ever mined. It forms sixty percent of global assets, and one of the most powerful people in the world--the president of the United States--made his name as a landlord and developer.Samuel Stein shows that this explosive transformation of urban life and politics has been driven not only by the tastes of wealthy newcomers, but by the state-driven process of urban planning. Planning agencies provide a unique window into the ways the state uses and is used by capital, and the means by which urban renovations are translated into rising