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Property
- Author
- Rowan Moore
- Narrator
- Antonia Beamish
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Publish Date
- 16 November 2023
- Run Time
- 8 hours 20 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Social classes
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Property is a vivid, far-reaching analysis of our concept of property ownership, from 16th-century feudalism to the present day. It tells powerful stories - of life in the developer-led boomtown of Gurugram in India, of the struggles to form black communities in Missouri and Georgia, of a giant experiment in co-operative living in the Bronx, of the theatrics of developer-kings like President Aliyev of Azerbaijan and the Trump family.
Above all, Property asks how we have come to view our homes not as a natural human right, but as investments - and it offers hope for how things could be better, with reform that might enable the social wealth of property to be returned to society.
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- Author
- Rowan Moore
- Narrator
- Antonia Beamish
- Duration
- 8 hours 20 minutes
- Release Date
- 16 November 2023
- ISBN
- 9781004140541
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Genre
- Social classes
Synopsis
Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also a weapon, an agent of displacement and exploitation, the currency of kleptocrats and oligarchs.Property is a vivid, far-reaching analysis of our concept of property ownership, from 16th-century feudalism to the present day. It tells powerful stories - of life in the developer-led boomtown of Gurugram in India, of the struggles to form black communities in Missouri and Georgia, of a giant experiment in co-operative living in the Bronx, of the theatrics of developer-kings like President Aliyev of Azerbaijan and the Trump family.Above all, Property asks how we have come to view our homes not as a natural human right, but as investments - and it offers hope for how things could be better, with reform that might enable the social wealth of property to be returned to society.
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