The Housing Question: Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City

by Edward Murphy and Najib b. Hourani

Book Overview

In the wake of the Great Recession, housing and its financing suddenly re-emerged as questions of significant public concern. Yet both public and academic debates about housing have remained constricted, tending not to explore how the evolution of housing simultaneously entails basic forms of socio-spatial reproduction and underlying tensions in the political order. Drawing on cutting edge perspectives from urban studies, this book grants renewed,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138274488
• ISBN13: 9781138274488
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"