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Title The housing question : tensions, continuities, and contingencies in the modern city / edited by Edward Murphy and Najib B. Hourani
Published London : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (289 pages)
Series Global Urban Studies
Global urban studies.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Housing Questions Past, Present, and Future; PART I PUTTING HIGH MODERNIST PLANNING IN ITS PLACE; 1 Modernity Unbound: Tolâ#x80;#x99;iatti as the New Soviet City Par Exellence; 2 The Transnationalization of the â#x80;#x9C;Housing Problemâ#x80;#x9D;: Social Sciences and Developmentalism in Postwar Argentina; 3 Infrastructural Thinking: Urban Housing in Former Czechoslovakia from the Stalin Era to EU Accession
4 The Politics of Public and Private Space: Housing and Urbanism in Divided BerlinPART II THE STATE OF UNEVEN GEOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENTS; 5 The Housing Question of Disaster Reconstruction: Rebuilding New Orleans on the Tenants of an Ownership Society; 6 Public Transit Planning and Austerity in Neoliberal Chicago; 7 Reinventing Favela Aesthetics: From Shacks to Public Housing Buildings; 8 Privatization, Marketization, and the Homeownership Paradox: The Housing Predicaments of Chinaâ#x80;#x99;s Urban Poor; PART III SPACES OF HOME IN THE CITY OF RIGHTS
9 Recognizing (Dis)Order: Topographies of Power and Property in Limaâ#x80;#x99;s Periphery10 Between Housing and Home: Property Titling and the Dilemmas of Citizenship in Santiago, Chile; 11 Citizenship and the Urban Polity: Right to the City and the Meanings of Home; PART IV FINAL REFLECTIONS; 12 Assemblage and Structure: Toward New Urban Political Economies; 13 Housing Crises, Right to the City, and Citizenship; Bibliography
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Housing policy -- Case studies
Society.
Housing policy
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Hourani, Najib B., editor.
Murphy, Edward, editor.
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