The Housing Question - Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City (Hardcover, New Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Global Urban Studies
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	Edward Murphy • Najib B. Hourani
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	322
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-4094-6262-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Residential buildings, domestic buildings > Houses, apartments, flats, etc Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > City & town planning - architectural aspects Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Homelessness Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4094-6262-5
Barcode:	9781409462620

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