Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics of Property

by NicholasBlomley (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $62.78

  How is the legal conception of property working to eradicate the global urban commons? Contemporary capitalism has advanced this process by producing rampant gentrification, socio-spatial stratification, and racial inequality. This text shows how the concept of property helps to generate and underwrite these pervasive urban processes.