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Book Speculations on the Question  What Is Housing

Download or read book Speculations on the Question What Is Housing written by Peter King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of a single essay that speculates on the question what is housing?, and its opposite question, what is not housing? The essay is organised around two distinct discourses around which housing can be framed. The first, which is the dominant discourse, is what I term policy thinking. This is where housing is seen solely in terms of policy formulation and action. The second discourse is private dwelling, which describes housing in terms of a private space used by households. Private dwelling might be seen as a product of policy, but, in actuality, it precedes policy thinking in being the very purpose of policy. Having made this distinction between policy thinking and private dwelling, and so stated in principle what housing is, the subsequent sections of the essay explore the nature of private dwelling in more detail and so substantiate the distinction between the two forms of discourse.

Book In Defense of Housing

Download or read book In Defense of Housing written by Peter Marcuse and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it? Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence of displacement and gentrification. And the benefits of decent housing are only available for those who can afford it. In Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. They look at the causes and consequences of the housing problem and detail the need for progressive alternatives. The housing crisis cannot be solved by minor policy shifts, they argue. Rather, the housing crisis has deep political and economic roots—and therefore requires a radical response.

Book The Speculative City

Download or read book The Speculative City written by Cecelia L. Chu and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By attending to the divergent forces and actors involved in property development in different geopolitical contexts, The Speculative City illustrates both the novelty and historical continuity of urbanization in the twentieth-first century.

Book Evidence and Innovation in Housing Law and Policy

Download or read book Evidence and Innovation in Housing Law and Policy written by Lee Anne Fennell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume illuminates housing's impact on both wealth and community, and examines legal and policy responses to current challenges. Also available as Open Access.

Book Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing

Download or read book Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing written by Josh Ryan-Collins and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn’t land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial system and land? In this accessible but provocative guide to the economics of land and housing, the authors reveal how many of the key challenges facing modern economies - including housing crises, financial instability and growing inequalities - are intimately tied to the land economy. Looking at the ways in which discussions of land have been routinely excluded from both housing policy and economic theory, the authors show that in order to tackle these increasingly pressing issues a major rethink by both politicians and economists is required.

Book Housing Speculation and Housing Price Bubble in Korea

Download or read book Housing Speculation and Housing Price Bubble in Korea written by Hee-Soo Chung and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Housing Question

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frederick Engels
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-05-16
  • ISBN : 9780717808748
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book The Housing Question written by Frederick Engels and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-16 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early-1870s, an ideological debate began to unfold in the German press on the shortage of affordable housing available to workers in major industrial areas. The rapid increase in industrial production necessitating an increase in industrial workers created a housing crisis. From June 1872 to February 1873, Fredrick Engels contributed a series of articles to the publication The Volksstaat (The People's State) titled "The Housing Question." Originally published as a booklet by the Co-Operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the USSR and out of print for many years, INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS is proud to make this text available - as workers yet again face almost insurmountable obstacles to finding affordable housing. As Engels wrote in 1872, "What is meant today by housing shortage is the peculiar intensification of the bad housing conditions of the workers as the result of the sudden rush of population to the big towns; a colossal increase in rents, a still further aggravation of overcrowding in the individual houses, and, for some, the impossibility of finding a place to live in at all." Fredrick Engels' essays collected here as "The Housing Question" are just as relevant today, roughly 150 years after first written.

Book Speculation  N

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shayla Lawz
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-09-15
  • ISBN : 9781637680056
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Speculation N written by Shayla Lawz and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems that imagine a world beyond the prevailing public speculation on Black death. Shayla Lawz's debut collection, speculation, n., brings together poetry, sound, and performance to challenge our spectatorship and the reproduction of the Black body. It revolves around a central question: what does it mean--in the digital age, amidst an inundation of media--to be a witness? Calling attention to the images we see in the news and beyond, these poems explore what it means to be alive and Black when the world regularly speculates on your death. The speaker, a queer Black woman, considers how often her body is coupled with images of death and violence, resulting in difficultly moving toward life. Lawz becomes the speculator by imagining what might exist beyond these harmful structures, seeking ways to reclaim the Black psyche through music, typography, and other pronunciations of the body, where expressions of sexuality and the freedom to actively reimagine is made possible. speculation, n. contends with the real--a refracted past and present--through grief, love, and loss, and it speculates on what could be real if we open ourselves to expanded possibilities. speculation, n. won the 2020 Autumn House Poetry Prize, selected by Ilya Kaminsky.

Book Speculations on a Method of extinguishing Fires without Water

Download or read book Speculations on a Method of extinguishing Fires without Water written by F. W. DEVEY and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Energy Speculation

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 988 pages

Download or read book Energy Speculation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Patterns of Speculation

Download or read book Patterns of Speculation written by Bertrand M. Roehner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main objective of this 2002 book is to show that behind the bewildering diversity of historical speculative episodes it is possible to find hidden regularities, thus preparing the way for a unified theory of market speculation. Speculative bubbles require the study of various episodes in order for a comparative perspective to be obtained and the analysis developed in this book follows a few simple but unconventional ideas. Investors are assumed to exhibit the same basic behavior during speculative episodes whether they trade stocks, real estate, or postage stamps. The author demonstrates how some of the basic concepts of dynamical system theory, such as the notions of impulse response, reaction times and frequency analysis, play an instrumental role in describing and predicting speculative behavior. This book will serve as a useful introduction for students of econophysics, and readers with a general interest in economics as seen from the perspective of physics.

Book Reports of Committees

Download or read book Reports of Committees written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Investment and Speculation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Conway (Jr.)
  • Publisher : New York : Alexander Hamilton institute
  • Release : 1911
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book Investment and Speculation written by Thomas Conway (Jr.) and published by New York : Alexander Hamilton institute. This book was released on 1911 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book House Documents

    Book Details:
  • Author : USA House of Representatives
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1873
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1456 pages

Download or read book House Documents written by USA House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 1456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book House of Commons Debates  Official Report

Download or read book House of Commons Debates Official Report written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book FDIC and FSLIC Procedures for Handling Financial Institution Failures and Speculation

Download or read book FDIC and FSLIC Procedures for Handling Financial Institution Failures and Speculation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Speculation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Glyn Daly
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 2019-03-15
  • ISBN : 0810139375
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Speculation written by Glyn Daly and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speculation: Politics, Ideology, Event develops Hegel’s radical perspective of speculative thought as a way of reclaiming and revitalizing the sense of the future and its possibilities. Engaging with such figures as Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Ernesto Laclau, Slavoj Žižek, and Fredric Jameson, Glyn Daly articulates the distinctness of speculative philosophy and draws its implications for new debates in areas of science, politics, capitalism, ideology, ethics, and the event. In a confrontation with today’s fatalistic milieu, principal emphasis is given to Hegel’s idea of infinity as the intrinsic dimension of negativity within all finitude. Against the modern era’s paradigmatic tendency to externalize social problems in the form of antagonism and Otherness, Daly argues for a renewal of utopian thought based on Hegelian reconciliation and the affirmation of excess as the essence of all being. On these grounds, he advances a new kind of political imagination that in speculative terms centers on uncompromising notions of truth and reason.