Description: Capital City by Samuel Stein A forensic look at the changing landscape of American cities FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Around the world, more and more money is being invested in real estate, the business of building, buying and renting land and property. You can sense it as you walk through most cities, and you can feel it every time you pay the rent or mortgage.The price of land becomes a central economic determinate and a dominant political issue. The clunky term "gentrification" becomes a household word and displacement an everyday fact of life. Government, particularly at the municipal scale, becomes more and more obsessed with raising property values and redistributing wealth upward through land and rents. Donald Trump becomes first a celebrity and ultimately a president. Taken together, we witness the rise of the real estate state, a political formation in which real estate capital has inordinate power over the shape of our cities, the parameters of our politics, and ultimately the lives we lead.Capital City describes when, how and why real estate came to rule, and what urban planners – the people who have their hands on the levers of housing policy – can do under these circumstances. Author Biography Samuel Stein is a lifelong resident of New York City, a PhD student in geography at the CUNY Graduate Center, and a Urban Studies Instructor at Hunter College. Review Steins lucid explanation for how we got to where were at shines urgent light on the origins and development of what he incisively calls "the Real Estate State." Capital City places gentrification in a structurally extensive and intensive urban geography of dispossession. All who struggle for the right to the city should read this book, and realize afresh how capitalism saving capitalism from capitalism must provoke our political imagination. -- Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Golden GulagCapital City casts a cold and brilliant light on the underlying political dynamics of global cities and rightly concludes that real estate and finance are in charge. This sobering book has to be part of our toolkit as we try to find the moorings for a powerful democratic pushback in local political struggles. -- Frances Fox Piven, co-author of Poor Peoples MovementsWant to know why the rents so high? Samuel Stein meticulously documents and analyzes the rise of the rip-off "real estate state," the instruments of its power, the invidious "plansplaining" arguments of its defenders, and, above all, its accelerating ethnic and class cleansing of American cities, gentrification-frenzied New York in the van. With the sleaziest of real estate developers now the rent-subsidized tenant of the White House bent on engorging his crony kin and kith by doubling down on the corrupt system of "geobribe" giveaways, backroom deals, and public theft that underwrites their ravages, this superbly succinct and incisive book couldnt be more timely or urgent. -- Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the MapSamuel Stein has written a book for those tired of merely describing gentrification and displacement, who are looking for explanations as well as new programs for action to do more. Capital City is a place that puts it all together, the theory and the practices of urban transformation, with a timely and urgent appeal. This is a lively users guide to thechanging landscape of the American city. -- Peter Marcuse, co-author of In Defense of Housing[Capital City] alternates a panoptic view with one that looks more closely, from the ground up, at what reckless development does to lives and livelihoods...Explicit in Steins narrative is the idea that a different, more democratic kind of planning might lead us to more democratic kinds of cities. -- Nikil Saval * The New Yorker *Samuel Steins Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State is a radical view into the heart of the processes [urban planners] oversee -- Andrea Gibbons * New Labor Forum *Capital City deserves attention from urban historians for its nuanced analysis of neoliberal urban policy and specific measures that generate inequality and may be also used in service of justice. This book will be a useful tool for a broad swath of people seeking a greater understanding of the urgency of this political moment which grows with every demolition. -- Amanda Boston * The Metropole *Vital and devastating ... [Capital City is] unabashed in its advocacy of a more equitable distribution of land and housing. ... A powerful companion to studies of the global rise of informal cities such as Mike Davis Planet of Slums, the racist history of housing in Richard Rothsteins The Color of Law, [and] the horrid effects of losing ones home in Matthew Desmonds Evicted. -- Joshua Barnett * New York Labor History Association * Promotional A forensic look at the changing landscape of American cities Review Quote "Steins lucid explanation for how we got to where were at shines urgent light on the origins and development of what he incisively calls the Real Estate State. Capital City places gentrification in a structurally extensive and intensive urban geography of dispossession. All who struggle for the right to the city should read this book, and realize afresh how capitalism saving capitalism from capitalism must provoke our political imagination." --Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Golden Gulag "Capital City casts a cold and brilliant light on the underlying political dynamics of global cities and rightly concludes that real estate and finance are in charge. This sobering book has to be part of our toolkit as we try to find the moorings for a powerful democratic pushback in local political struggles." --Frances Fox Piven, co-author of Poor Peoples Movements "Want to know why the rents so high? Samuel Stein meticulously documents and analyzes the rise of the rip-off real estate state, the instruments of its power, the invidious plansplaining arguments of its defenders, and, above all, its accelerating ethnic and class cleansing of American cities, gentrification-frenzied New York in the van. With the sleaziest of real estate developers now the rent-subsidized tenant of the White House bent on engorging his crony kin and kith by doubling down on the corrupt system of geobribe giveaways, backroom deals, and public theft that underwrites their ravages, this superbly succinct and incisive book couldnt be more timely or urgent." --Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the Map "Samuel Stein has written a book for those tired of merely describing gentrification and displacement, who are looking for explanations as well as new programs for action to do more. Capital City is a place that puts it all together, the theory and the practices of urban transformation, with a timely and urgent appeal. This is a lively users guide to thechanging landscape of the American city." --Peter Marcuse, co-author of In Defense of Housing Promotional "Headline" A forensic look at the changing landscape of American cities Details ISBN1786636395 Author Samuel Stein Publisher Verso Books Year 2019 ISBN-10 1786636395 ISBN-13 9781786636393 Pages 208 Format Paperback Imprint Verso Books Subtitle Gentrification and the Real Estate State Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 307.12160973 Publication Date 2019-03-05 Short Title Capital City Language English Series Jacobin UK Release Date 2019-03-05 NZ Release Date 2019-03-05 Audience General AU Release Date 2019-05-05 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:124812979;
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ISBN-13: 9781786636393
Book Title: Capital City
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Name: Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
Language: English
Publisher: Verso Books
Item Height: 198 mm
Subject: Finance
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Urban Planning
Author: Samuel Stein
Item Width: 129 mm
Format: Paperback
