Planning is the way we shape space over time. In geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore's terms, the point of planning is "to have some sense of how to secure the future." It happens on multiple scales: individuals plan for their own survival and advancement; households plan ways to make their incomes stretch and their futures brighter; businesses plan in highly structured and rigorous ways, creating schemes to eclipse the competition and increase their profitability; communities and movements plan strategies for survival and resistance, and produce "insurgent" plans that chart the way from deprivation to freedom.
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Capital City
gentrification and the real estate state
by Samuel Stein
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"This superbly succinct and incisive book couldn't be more timely or urgent." -Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the Map Our cities are changing. Around the world, more and more money is being invested in buildings and land. Real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, worth thirty-six times the value of all the gold ever mined. It forms sixty percent of global assets, and one of the most powerful people in the world-the president of the United States-made his name as a landlord and developer. Samuel Stein shows that this explosive transformation of urban life and politics has been driven not only by the tastes of wealthy newcomers, but by the state-driven process of urban planning. Planning agencies provide a unique window into the ways the state uses and is used by capital, and the means by which urban renovations are translated into rising real estate values and rising rents. Capital City explains the role of planners in the real estate state, as well as the remarkable power of planning to reclaim urban life.
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The rise of real estate state
Planning gentrification
New York's bipartisan consensus
The developer president and the private side of planning history
unmaking the real estate state.
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Our cities are changing. Around the world, more and more money is being invested in buildings and land. Real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, worth thirty-six times the value of all the gold ever mined. It forms sixty percent of global assets, and one of the most powerful people in the world—the president of the United States—made his name as a landlord and developer.
Samuel Stein shows that this explosive transformation of urban life and politics has been driven not only by the tastes of wealthy newcomers, but by the state-led process of urban planning. Planning agencies provide a unique window into the ways the state uses and is used by capital, and the means by which urban renovations are translated into rising real estate values and rising rents.
Capital City explains the role of planners in the real estate state, as well as the remarkable power of planning to reclaim urban life.
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