The Housing Question: Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City
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.
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The Housing Question: Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City
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.
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The Housing Question: Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City

The Housing Question: Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City

The Housing Question: Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City

The Housing Question: Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472407887
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date: 01/28/2014
Series: Global Urban Studies
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 20 MB
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About the Author

Edward Murphy and Najib B. Hourani are both at Michigan State University, USA.

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: housing questions past, present, and future, Edward Murphy; Part I Putting High Modernist Planning in Its Place: Modernity unbound: Tol’iatti as the new Soviet city par excellence, Lewis H. Siegelbaum; The transnationalization of the ‘housing problem’: social sciences and developmentalism in postwar Argentina, Leandro Benmergui; Infrastructural thinking: urban housing in former Czechoslovakia from the Stalin era to EU accession, Kimberly Elman Zarecor; The politics of public and private space: housing and urbanism in divided Berlin, Carolyn Loeb. Part II The State of Uneven Geographic Developments: The housing question of disaster reconstruction: rebuilding New Orleans on the tenants of an ownership society, Christopher Herring; Public transit planning and austerity in neoliberal Chicago, Stephanie Farmer and Sean Noonan; Reinventing favela aesthetics: from shacks to public housing buildings, Gustavo Rivera Jr; Privatization, marketization, and the homeownership paradox: housing predicaments for China’s urban poor, Guo Chen. Part III Spaces of Home in the City of Rights: recognizing (dis)order: topographies of power and property in Lima’s periphery, Kristin Skrabut; Between housing and home: property titling and the dilemmas of citizenship in Santiago, Chile, Edward Murphy; Citizenship and the urban polity: right to the city and the meanings of home, Tony Roshan Samara. Part IV Final Reflections: Conclusion: Assemblage and structure: toward new urban political economies, Najib B. Hourani; Housing crises, right to the city, and citizenship, James Holston; Bibliography; Index.


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