Urban Warfare - Housing Under the Empire of Finance

Informationen zum Autor Raquel Rolnik is a professor of Urban Planning at the University of São Paulo. She was National Secretary for Urban Programmes of the Brazilian Ministry of Cities (2003-2007). From 2008 to 2014, she held the mandate of UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing and visited the US and UK, among other countries, causing some controversy on housing policies. David Harvey teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of many books, including Social Justice and the City , The Condition of Postmodernity , The Limits to Capital , A Brief History of Neoliberalism , Spaces of Global Capitalism , and A Companion to Marx's Capital . Klappentext English translation from the Portuguese of "Guerra dos lugares: a colonizaðcäao da terra e da morandia na era das finanðcas" (Säao Paulo: Boitempo, 2015). Zusammenfassung A global study of the financialisation of housing.

Product details

• Authors: Raquel Rolnik, David Raquel Rolnik, Raquel Rolnik
• Assisted by: David Harvey (Introduction), Gabriel Hirschhorn (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781788731607
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-160-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Regional Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Urban & municipal planning, Property & real estate, urban economics, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Property and real estate, Regional / urban economics