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Capital city
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- Book Synopsis
- Our cities are changing. Global real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined. It makes up 60 percent of the world's assets, and the most powerful person in the world - the president of the United States - made his name as a landlord and real estate developer. As Samuel Stein makes clear in this tightly argued book, its through seemingly innocuous profession of city planners that we can best understand the transformations underway. Planners provide a window into the practical dynamics of urban change: the way the state uses and is used by organized capital, and the power of landlords and developers at every level of government. But crucially, planners also possess some of the powers we must leverage if we ever wish to reclaim our cities from real estate capital.
- About The Author
- Samuel Stein is the author of the book Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State. He works as a housing policy researcher and advocate in New York City, and holds a Master's in Urban Planning from Hunter College (CUNY) and a PhD in geography from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His writing on urban politics and planning has appeared in The New York Review of Books, N+1, The Guardian, and many other publications.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781786636393
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Verso, (05 March 2019)
- Number of Pages
- 202
- Weight
- 236 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 16.3 mm
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