Real Estate and Global Urban History

Alexia Yates (University of Manchester)

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English

Cambridge University Press
26 August 2021

Urban economics; Property & real estate; Urban & municipal planning

Series: Elements in Global Urban History

Capitalist private property in land and buildings - real estate - is the ground of modern cities, materially, politically, and economically. It is foundational to their development and core to much theoretical work on the urban environment. It is also a central, pressing matter of political contestation in contemporary cities. Yet it remains largely without a history. This Element examines the modern city as a propertied space, defining real estate as a technology of (dis)possession and using it to move across scales of analysis, from the local spatiality of particular built spaces to the networks of legal, political, and economic imperatives that constitute property and operate at national and international levels. This combination of territorial embeddedness with more wide-ranging institutional relationships charts a route to an urban history that allows the city to speak as a global agent and artefact without dispensing with the role of states and local circumstance.

By: Alexia Yates (University of Manchester)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 5mm
Weight: 140g
ISBN: 9781108797115
ISBN 10: 1108797113
Series: Elements in Global Urban History
Pages: 75
Publication Date: 26 August 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: The Case for Real Estate; 2. Real Estate and the Historiography of the City; 3. Urban Theory, Through the Real Estate Lens; 4. The Fleeting and the Fixed Global Urban Histories of Markets and Land; 5. Conclusion; 6. References.