The housing question : tensions, continuities, and contingencies in the modern city /
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| Imprint: | Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013] |
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| Description: | xi, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Global urban studies Global urban studies. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9952822 |
| Summary: | In the wake of the Great Recession, housing and its financing suddenly re-emerged as questions of significant public concern. Yet both public and academic debates about housing have remained constricted, tending not to explore how the evolution of housing simultaneously entails basic forms of socio-spatial reproduction and underlying tensions in the political order. Drawing on cutting edge perspectives from urban studies, this book grants renewed, interdisciplinary energy to the housing question. It explores how housing raises a series of vexing issues surrounding rights, identity, and justice in the modern city. Through finely detailed studies that illuminate national and regional particularities- ranging from analyses of urban planning in the Soviet Union, the post-Katrina reconstruction of New Orleans, to squatting in contemporary Lima - the volume underscores how housing questions matter in a wide range of contexts. It draws attention to ruptures and continuities between high modernist and neoliberal forms of urbanism, demonstrating how housing and the dilemmas surrounding it are central to governance and the production of space in a rapidly urbanizing world. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-304) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781409462620 1409462625 9781409462637 9781472407887 |
