Unsettling the City Urban Land and the Politics of Property

Name: Unsettling the City Urban Land and the Politics of Property
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ISBN: 9780415933162

ISBN-10: 0415933161

ISBN-13: 9780415933162

Edition: 2004

Authors: Nicholas Blomley

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How is the legal conception of "property" working to eradicate the global urban commons? Contemporary capitalism has advanced this process by producing rampant gentrification, socio-spatial stratification, and racial inequality. InUnsettling the City,Nicholas Blomley shows how the concept of "property" helps to generate and underwrite these pervasive urban processes. But they are not uncontested. Showing how conflicting concepts of property are implicated in a host of social struggles in the contemporary city, he begins his study with the Pacific Northwest. From this base, Blomley moves to Pacific Rim cities in general, looking at gentrification, urban land, and postcolonialism in the…

Book details

List price: $56.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/14/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements


Preface



Welcome to the Hotel California



Property and the Landscapes of Gentrification



The Moralities of Land



Land and the Postcolonial City



Back to the Land


Notes


Bibliography


Index