Urban warfare housing under the empire of finance
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 -...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London, New York
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2019
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City planning
> Social aspects
> Housing policy
> Real estate development
> Housing
> Economic aspects
> Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
> Influence
> Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009)
> City planning ; Economic aspects
> Housing ; Economic aspects
> Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
> Case studies
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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. 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | English translation from the Portuguese of "Guerra dos lugares: a colonização da terra e da morandia na era das finanças" (São Paulo: Boitempo, 2015) Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-349) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 370 Seiten 2 Karten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781788731607 978-1-78873-160-7 1788731603 1-78873-160-3 9781788733007 978-1-78873-300-7 1788733002 1-78873-300-2 |