Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State Audiobook (Free)

Our cities are changing. Around the world, increasingly more money is being invested in structures and land. Real estate is currently a $217 trillion-dollar industry, worth thirty-six occasions the value of all precious metal ever mined. It forms 60 % of global property, and perhaps one of the most effective people in the world-the president from the United States-made his name like a landlord and developer.

Samuel Stein shows that this explosive transformation of urban lifestyle and politics has been driven not only by the preferences of wealthy beginners, but from the state-driven procedure for urban planning. Setting up agencies provide a exclusive window into the methods the state uses and is used by capital, and the means where metropolitan renovations are translated into increasing real estate beliefs and rising rents.

Capital City explains the function of planners in the real estate state, aswell as the remarkable power of planning to reclaim urban life.