1. Welcome to the Hotel California 2. Property and the Landscapes of Gentrification 3. The Moralities of Land 4. Land and the Postcolonial City 5. Back to the Land
Nicholas Blomley
"This book makes a compelling argument for the importance of
understanding the ways that hegemonic understandings of property
underwrite gentrification and urbanism more generally. But it also
unsettles our understanding of private property by elaborating a
plethora of already-existing examples that reside somewhere between
public and private: from ocean waves to community gardens. Blomley
makes a powerful argument about the expansionary potential of
community property rights and gives us compelling conceptual tools
for fighting hegemonic meanings of property. This book is a
wonderful antidote to the 'death of public space' literature, which
is not only depressing but debilitating." -- Geraldine Pratt,
University of British Columbia and co-editor of Dictionary of Human
Geography
"A book on urban domestic and commercial property ownership is long
overdue in critical geography. In Unsetting the City, Blomley
skillfully shows us how urban land is controlled legally, but also
ordinarily: an obvious geography we rarely appreciate with much
theoretical depth. This fine book interrogates that banality of
owning urban land through critiques of capitalism and liberal
democracy, showing us just how powerful and diffuse
this--literally--'political geography' is to maintaining injustice
and inequality in the city." -- Michael Brown, University of
Washington and author of RePlacing Citizenship: AIDS Activism
andRadical Democracy
no.145
"...a significant contribution to a multiperspectival understanding
of the important Vancouver experience." -- BC Studies, The British
Columbia Quarterly
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