Drawing on cutting edge perspectives from urban studies, this book grants renewed, interdisciplinary energy to the housing question. It explores how housing raises a series of vexing issues surrounding rights, identity, and justice in the modern city. Through finely detailed studies that illuminate
Vexed in Vermont
β Scribed by Marie Higgins
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 73 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ASIN
- B08BKTYQTH
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β¦ Synopsis
Drawing on cutting edge perspectives from urban studies, this book grants renewed, interdisciplinary energy to the housing question. It explores how housing raises a series of vexing issues surrounding rights, identity, and justice in the modern city. Through finely detailed studies that illuminate national and regional particularities- ranging from analyses of urban planning in the Soviet Union, the post-Katrina reconstruction of New Orleans, to squatting in contemporary Lima - the volume underscores how housing questions matter in a wide range of contexts.;Cover; 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: Tol'iatti as the New Soviet City Par Exellence; 2 The Transnationalization of the "Housing Problem": 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 Berlin.
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