Property : the myth that built the world
Moore, Rowan2023
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A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain. Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also a weapon, an agent of displacement and exploitation, the currency of kleptocrats and oligarchs. In Britain, it has led to a new class division between those who own and those who don't. Property is a vivid, far-reaching analysis of our concept of property ownership, from 16th-century enclosures to the present day. It tells powerful stories - of life in the developer-led boomtown of Gurgaon in India, of the struggles to form Black communities in Missouri and Georgia, of a giant experiment in co-operative living in the Bronx, of the impacts of Margaret Thatcher's "property-owning democracy." Above all, Property asks how we have come to view our homes as investments - and it offers hope for how things could be better, with reform that might enable the social wealth of property to be returned to society.
Main title:
Property : the myth that built the world / by Rowan Moore.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2023.
Collation:
315 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The world according to property1. The miracle ingredient2. The property-owning democracy3. The values of value4. The reality of realty5. Developer kings6. City of monadsThe philosophy of property7. Property is heft8. A convenient fiction9. Possession and domainWhat else could there be?10. Life in common11. Community and cooperation12. The visible hand13. Imagine a country.
ISBN:
9780571350094 (paperback)
Dewey class:
330.17
Language:
English
BRN:
460177
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 330.17 PRO | Onloan - Due: 21 Oct 2024 |