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Unsettling the City Nicholas Blomley

Unsettling the City By Nicholas Blomley

Unsettling the City by 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. This text shows how the concept of "property" helps to generate and underwrite these pervasive urban processes.

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Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics of Property by Nicholas Blomley

Short and accessible, this book interweaves a discussion of the geography of property in one global city, Vancouver, with a more general analysis of property, politics, and the city.

Unsettling the City Reviews

"This book makes a compelling argument for the importance of understanding the ways that hegemonic understandings of property underwrite gentrification and urbanism more generally. But it also unsettles our understanding of private property by elaborating a plethora of already-existing examples that reside somewhere between public and private: from ocean waves to community gardens. Blomley makes a powerful argument about the expansionary potential of community property rights and gives us compelling conceptual tools for fighting hegemonic meanings of property. This book is a wonderful antidote to the 'death of public space' literature, which is not only depressing but debilitating." -- Geraldine Pratt, University of British Columbia and co-editor of Dictionary of Human Geography
"A book on urban domestic and commercial property ownership is long overdue in critical geography. In Unsetting the City, Blomley skillfully shows us how urban land is controlled legally, but also ordinarily: an obvious geography we rarely appreciate with much theoretical depth. This fine book interrogates that banality of owning urban land through critiques of capitalism and liberal democracy, showing us just how powerful and diffuse this--literally--'political geography' is to maintaining injustice and inequality in the city." -- Michael Brown, University of Washington and author of RePlacing Citizenship: AIDS Activism and Radical Democracy
no.145
"...a significant contribution to a multiperspectival understanding of the important Vancouver experience." -- BC Studies, The British Columbia Quarterly

Table of Contents

1. Welcome to the Hotel California 2. Property and the Landscapes of Gentrification 3. The Moralities of Land 4. Land and the Postcolonial City 5. Back to the Land

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CIN0415933161G
9780415933162
0415933161
Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics of Property by Nicholas Blomley
Nicholas Blomley
Used - Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2003-11-14
256
N/A
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