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Book Title
Capital City : Gentrification and the Real Estate State
Publication Name
Capital City
Title
Capital City
Subtitle
Gentrification and the Real Estate State
Author
Samuel Stein
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
1786636395
EAN
9781786636393
ISBN
9781786636393
Publisher
Verso Books
Genre
Social Science, Political Science
Topic
Political Economy, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Sociology / Urban
Release Date
05/03/2019
Release Year
2019
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
GB
Item Height
0.6in
Item Length
7.8in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
6.8 Oz
Series
Jacobin
Publication Year
2019
Number of Pages
208 Pages

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"This superbly succinct and incisive book" on urban planning and real estate argues gentrification isn't driven by latte-sipping hipsters--but is engineered by the capitalist state (Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the Map ) Our 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 former 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 real estate values and rising rents. Capital City explains the role of planners in the real estate state, as well as the remarkable power of planning to reclaim urban life.

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Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-10
1786636395
ISBN-13
9781786636393
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242986020

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Book Title
Capital City : Gentrification and the Real Estate State
Author
Samuel Stein
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Political Economy, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
208 Pages

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Item Length
7.8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
6.8 Oz

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Ht166
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"Stein's lucid explanation for how we got to where we're at shines urgent light on the origins and development of what he incisively calls 'the Real Estate State.' Capital City places gentrification in a structurally extensive and intensive urban geography of dispossession. All who struggle for the right to the city should read this book, and realize afresh how capitalism saving capitalism from capitalism must provoke our political imagination." --Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Golden Gulag "Capital City casts a cold and brilliant light on the underlying political dynamics of global cities and rightly concludes that real estate and finance are in charge. This sobering book has to be part of our toolkit as we try to find the moorings for a powerful democratic pushback in local political struggles." --Frances Fox Piven, co-author of Poor People's Movements "Want to know why the rent's so high? Samuel Stein meticulously documents and analyzes the rise of the rip-off 'real estate state,' the instruments of its power, the invidious 'plansplaining' arguments of its defenders, and, above all, its accelerating ethnic and class cleansing of American cities, gentrification-frenzied New York in the van. With the sleaziest of real estate developers now the rent-subsidized tenant of the White House bent on engorging his crony kin and kith by doubling down on the corrupt system of 'geobribe' giveaways, backroom deals, and public theft that underwrites their ravages, this superbly succinct and incisive book couldn't be more timely or urgent." --Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the Map "Samuel Stein has written a book for those tired of merely describing gentrification and displacement, who are looking for explanations as well as new programs for action to do more. Capital City is a place that puts it all together, the theory and the practices of urban transformation, with a timely and urgent appeal. This is a lively user's guide to thechanging landscape of the American city." --Peter Marcuse, co-author of In Defense of Housing, "Stein's lucid explanation for how we got to where we're at shines urgent light on the origins and development of what he incisively calls 'the Real Estate State.' Capital City places gentrification in a structurally extensive and intensive urban geography of dispossession. All who struggle for the right to the city should read this book, and realize afresh how capitalism saving capitalism from capitalism must provoke our political imagination." --Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Golden Gulag "Capital City casts a cold and brilliant light on the underlying political dynamics of global cities and rightly concludes that real estate and finance are in charge. This sobering book has to be part of our toolkit as we try to find the moorings for a powerful democratic pushback in local political struggles." --Frances Fox Piven, co-author of Poor People's Movements "Want to know why the rent's so high? Samuel Stein meticulously documents and analyzes the rise of the rip-off 'real estate state,' the instruments of its power, the invidious 'plansplaining' arguments of its defenders, and, above all, its accelerating ethnic and class cleansing of American cities, gentrification-frenzied New York in the vanguard. This superbly succinct and incisive book couldn't be more timely or urgent." --Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the Map "Samuel Stein has written a book for those tired of merely describing gentrification and displacement, who are looking for explanations as well as new programs for action. Capital City puts it all together, the theory and the practices of urban transformation, with a timely and urgent appeal. This is a lively user's guide to the changing landscape of the American city." --Peter Marcuse, co-author of In Defense of Housing "[ Capital City ] alternates a panoptic view with one that looks more closely, from the ground up, at what reckless development does to lives and livelihoods ... Explicit in Stein's narrative is the idea that a different, more democratic kind of planning might lead us to more democratic kinds of cities." --Nikil Saval, New Yorker "A radical view into the heart of the processes [urban planners] oversee." --Andrea Gibbons, New Labor Forum
Copyright Date
2019
Target Audience
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Lccn
2018-289958
Series
Jacobin Ser.

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