Edward Murphy, Najib B. Hourani

The Housing Question (eBook, PDF)

Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317028451
• Artikelnr.: 44864358

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Housing Questions Past
Present
and Future
PART I. PUTTING HIGH MODERNIST PLANNING IN ITS PLACE
1. Modernity Unbound: Tol'iatti as the New Soviet City Par Excellence
2. The Transnationalization of the "Housing Problem": Social Sciences and Developmentalism in Postwar Argentina
3. Infrastructural Thinking: Urban Housing in Former Czechoslovakia from the Stalin Era to EU Accession
4. The Politics of Public and Private Space: Housing and Urbanism in Divided Berlin
PART II. THE STATE OF UNEVEN GEOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENTS
5. The Housing Question of Disaster Reconstruction: Rebuilding New Orleans on the Tenants of an Ownership Society
6. Public Transit Planning and Austerity in Neoliberal Chicago
7. Reinventing Favela Aesthetics: From Shacks to Public Housing Buildings
8. Privatization
Marketization
and the Homeownership Paradox: The Housing Predicaments of China's Urban Poor
PART III. SPACES OF HOME IN THE CITY OF RIGHTS
9. Recognizing (Dis)Order: Topographies of Power and Property in Lima's Periphery
10. Between Housing and Home: Property Titling and the Dilemmas of Citizenship in Santiago
Chile
11. Citizenship and the Urban Polity: Right to the City and the Meanings of Home
PART IV FINAL REFLECTIONS
12. Assemblage and Structure: Toward New Urban Political Economies
13. Housing Crises
Right to the City
and Citizenship
Bibliography
Index