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Property: The myth that built the world /
Moore, Rowan.
Property: The myth that built the world / Rowan Moore. - London : Faber & Faber, 2023 - 327 pages, 18 cm.
Introduction -- The world according to property -- 1. The miracle ingredient -- 2. The property-owning democracy -- 3. The values of value -- 4. The reality of realty -- 5. Developer kings -- 6. City of Monads -- The philosophy of property -- 7. Property is heft -- 8. A convenient fiction -- 9. Possession and domain -- What else could there be? -- 10. Life in common -- 11. Community and cooperation -- 12. The visible hand -- 13. Imagine a country -- Conclusion.
A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.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. In Britain, it has led to a new class division between those who own and those who don't.Property is a vivid, far-reaching analysis of our concept of property ownership, from 16th-century enclosures to the present day. It tells powerful stories - of life in the developer-led boomtown of Gurgaon 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 impacts of Margaret Thatcher's ""property-owning democracy." Above all, Property asks how we have come to view our homes 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.
9780571350100 (paperback)
Real property History.
Real property Social aspects
333.3309 MOR
Property: The myth that built the world / Rowan Moore. - London : Faber & Faber, 2023 - 327 pages, 18 cm.
Introduction -- The world according to property -- 1. The miracle ingredient -- 2. The property-owning democracy -- 3. The values of value -- 4. The reality of realty -- 5. Developer kings -- 6. City of Monads -- The philosophy of property -- 7. Property is heft -- 8. A convenient fiction -- 9. Possession and domain -- What else could there be? -- 10. Life in common -- 11. Community and cooperation -- 12. The visible hand -- 13. Imagine a country -- Conclusion.
A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.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. In Britain, it has led to a new class division between those who own and those who don't.Property is a vivid, far-reaching analysis of our concept of property ownership, from 16th-century enclosures to the present day. It tells powerful stories - of life in the developer-led boomtown of Gurgaon 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 impacts of Margaret Thatcher's ""property-owning democracy." Above all, Property asks how we have come to view our homes 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.
9780571350100 (paperback)
Real property History.
Real property Social aspects
333.3309 MOR