Bricks and Mortals: Dream of the 80s and the Nightmare of the 90s - Inside Story of the Property World

by Alastair Ross Goobey (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1992

  $4.86

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $3.49

  This book looks at the world of the property developers - the key figures, their fortunes, their techniques and their organizations. The book describes how leading figures on the UK property scene made, and sometimes lost, fortunes in the 1980s property boom. It analyzes the impressive, but disturbing, rise of the developers and reveals the power of big insurance companies and pension funds. The author explains the developments in design, construction and financing methods which have transformed the skylines of our major cities, often to the dismay of those who live and work in them and those, like the Prince of Wales, who care for the environment. The book is an account of larger-than-life personalities and the buildings which have made them millionaires.