Real estate and global urban history / Alexia Yates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yates, Alexia M., 1980- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in global urban history, 2632-3206

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Growth.

Cities and towns.

Real property--Economic aspects.

Real property.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (81 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Capitalist private property in land and buildings - real estate - is the ground of modern cities, materially, politically, and economically. It is foundational to their development and core to much theoretical work on the urban environment. It is also a central, pressing matter of political contestation in contemporary cities. Yet it remains largely without a history. This Element examines the modern city as a propertied space, defining real estate as a technology of (dis)possession and using it to move across scales of analysis, from the local spatiality of particular built spaces to the networks of legal, political, and economic imperatives that constitute property and operate at national and international levels. This combination of territorial embeddedness with more wide-ranging institutional relationships charts a route to an urban history that allows the city to speak as a global agent and artefact without dispensing with the role of states and local circumstance.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Real Estate and Global Urban History

Contents

1 Introduction: The Case for Real Estate

2 Real Estate and the Historiography of the City

3 Urban Theory, Through the Real Estate Lens

3.1 Real Estate and Theories of Urban Pasts

3.2 Real Estate and Theories of Urban Futures

4 The Fleeting and the Fixed: Global Urban Histories of Markets and Land

4.1 Mobilizing Real Estate: Markets for the Modern City

4.2 Fixing Real Estate: Property in the Modern City

5 Conclusion

References.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jun 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-85176-2

1-108-85238-6

1-108-85055-3

OCLC:

1257796799