In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis - Hardcover

Marcuse, Peter; Madden, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1784783536 ISBN 13: 9781784783532

Verlag: Verso Books, 2016

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Críticas:

"Excellent." --Charles Mudede, The Stranger "An accessible, jargon-free account of how housing works under capitalism and a clarion call for how we can--and must--change it." --Socialist Review "A critical analysis of the nature of the housing crisis within a political economy perspective. The authors highlight a conflict between housing as home and as real estate for profit making and focus upon processes of commodification of housing, power and exploitation, and inequality and injustice in contemporary capitalist society ... A significant contribution to urban planning, sociology, and public policy." --D.A. Chekki, Choice "In Defense of Housing clearly lays out the systemic nature of the housing crisis and seamlessly breaks down complicated economic concepts. Madden and Marcuse gently disabuse readers of illusions that the end of the housing crisis is just a policy tweak away." --James Tracy, Rooflines "A timely and exceptional book with enormous significance to housing movements everywhere ... By providing even the most experienced housing scholars with a clear conceptual and analytic apparatus that moves beyond a rights-based approach to housing, it can be used as a tool for activisms, for legal claims, for political and policy discussions and in scholarly debates and classrooms." --Melissa Fern ndez Arrigoitia, City Journal

Reseña del editor:

Peter Marcuse has long been recognised as one of the foremost critical urban scholars of our era. He has been writing about and participating in urban politics since the 1950s and remains on the cutting edge of urban activism today. In this book, co-written with David Madden, he argues that the housing question is not an architectural or moral question but a political and economic one with architectural and moral implications. He calls for a comprehensive transformation in the production, distribution and regulation of housing and details a number of progressive possibilities for today's housing situation, offering an account of how a movement for housing justice can be part of a movement to transform the city itself.

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• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1784783536
• ISBN 13: 9781784783532
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240