| Description |
xii, 370 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
English translation from the Portuguese of "Guerra dos lugares: a colonização da terra e da morandia na era das finanças" (São Paulo: Boitempo, 2015). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I -- 1. The global financialisation of housing -- 2. The mortgage system -- 3. Exporting the model -- 4. Post-crisis measures: More of the same? -- 5. The demand-side subsidies model -- 6. microfinance: The last frontier -- Part II -- 7. Tenure insecurity -- 8. From enclosures to foreclosures -- 9. Informal, illegal, ambiguous -- 10. Private property, contracts and the globalised language of finance -- 11. Insecure tenure in the era of large projects -- Part III -- 12. Financialisation in the tropics -- 13. At the frontier of the real-estate-financial complex -- 14. Real-estate avenues -- 15. Real-estate games -- 16. June 2013: Journeys and beyond. |
| Summary |
The most comprehensive survey of the current crisis, Urban Warfare charts how the financial crisis and wider urban politics have left millions homeless and in financial desperation across the world. The financialisation of housing has become a global catastrophe, leaving millions desperate and homeless. Since the 2008 financial collapse, models of home ownership, originating in the US and UK, are being exported around the world. Using examples from across the globe, Rolnik shows how our cities have been sold to construction companies and banks, while supported by government-facilitated schemes, such as "the right to buy" subsidies and micro-financing. Our homes and neighbourhoods have become the "last subprime frontiers of capitalism," organised by those who benefit the most. |
| Subject |
Housing policy.
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Real estate development.
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City planning -- Social aspects.
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Housing policy -- Brazil.
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Real estate development -- Brazil.
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City planning -- Social aspects -- Brazil.
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Housing -- Economic aspects -- Case studies.
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City planning -- Economic aspects -- Case studies.
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Housing policy -- Case studies.
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Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 -- Influence.
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Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009) (OCoLC)fst01755654
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City planning -- Economic aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00862205
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Housing -- Economic aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00962273
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Housing policy. (OCoLC)fst00962432
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) (OCoLC)fst00972484
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| Chronological Term |
2008-2009
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
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| Added Author |
Harvey, David, writer of introduction.
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Hirschhorn, Felipe, translator.
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| Added Title |
Guerra dos lugares. English
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| ISBN |
9781788731607 (paperback) |
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1788731603 (paperback) |
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9781788733007 (hardcover) |
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1788733002 (hardcover) |
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