Author: Samuel Stein File Type: epub This superbly succinct and incisive book couldnt be more timely or urgent.Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the Map Our cities are changing. Around the world, more and more money is being invested in buildings and land. Real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, worth thirty-six times the value of all the gold ever mined. It forms sixty percent of global assets, and one of the most powerful people in the worldthe president of the United Statesmade his name as a landlord and developer. Samuel Stein shows that this explosive transformation of urban life and politics has been driven not only by the tastes of wealthy newcomers, but by the state-driven process of urban planning. Planning agencies provide a unique window into the ways the state uses and is used by capital, and the means by which urban renovations are translated into rising real estate values and rising rents. Capital City explains the role of planners in the real estate state, as well as the remarkable power of planning to reclaim urban life.**Review Steins lucid explanation for how we got to where were at shines urgent light on the origins and development of what he incisively calls the Real Estate State. Capital City places gentrification in a structurally extensive and intensive urban geography of dispossession. All who struggle for the right to the city should read this book, and realize afresh how capitalism saving capitalism from capitalism must provoke our political imagination. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of *Golden Gulag* Capital City casts a cold and brilliant light on the underlying political dynamics of global cities and rightly concludes that real estate and finance are in charge. This sobering book has to be part of our toolkit as we try to find the moorings for a powerful democratic pushback in local political struggles. Frances Fox Piven, co-author of *Poor Peoples Movements* Want to know why the rents so high? Samuel Stein meticulously documents and analyzes the rise of the rip-off real estate state, the instruments of its power, the invidious plansplaining arguments of its defenders, and, above all, its accelerating ethnic and class cleansing of American cities, gentrification-frenzied New York in the vanguard. This superbly succinct and incisive book couldnt be more timely or urgent. Michael Sorkin, author ofAll Over the MapSamuel Stein has written a book for those tired of merely describing gentrification and displacement, who are looking for explanations as well as new programs for action. Capital City puts it all together, the theory and the practices of urban transformation, with a timely and urgent appeal. This is a lively users guide to the changing landscape of the American city.Peter Marcuse, co-author of *In Defense of Housing* About the Author Samuel Stein studies geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and teaches urban studies at Hunter College. His writing on planning politics has been published by Jacobin, The Journal of Urban Affairs, Metropolitics , and many other magazines and journals.

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Author: Marcus Blakeston File Type: epub Skinhead Trog was in a foul mood when he pushed through the door to The Black Bull, and the rowdy sounds of his favourite band The Cockney Upstarts playing on the jukebox did little to calm him. It was bad enough having his bird yelling and screaming at him and then stamping off in a sulk without having some gobby student call him a rotter. Punk Faction is a new series of short, interlinked stories set in and around a small Yorkshire town in the early 1980s. Written by 1980s fanzine writer and shouting poet Marcus Blakeston, they are populated by an assortment of punks, skinheads, yobs and hooligans. This is life how it really was for Thatchers lost generation. Not suitable for yuppies.

Author: Oleg Gelikman File Type: pdf Noto Sans [unknown], serif 12pxculture theory, media studies Noto Sans [unknown], serif 12pxGelikman, Oleg. Intermediality and Aesthetic Theory in Shklovskys and Adornos Thought. CLCWeb Comparative Literature and Culture 13.3 (2011) a href=httpdx.doi.org10.77711481-4374.1791httpdx.doi.org10.77711481-4374.1791afont face=Noto Sans [unknown], serifspan 12pxOleg Gelikman, Intermediality and Aesthetic Theory in Shklovskys and Adornos Thoughtspanfontfont face=Noto Sans [unknown], serifspan 12pxpage 2 of 10spanfontfont face=Noto Sans [unknown], serifspan 12pxCLCWeb Comparative Literature and Culture 13.3 (2011) httpdocs.lib.purdue.educlcwebvol13iss34spanfontfont face=Noto Sans [unknown], serifspan 12pxThematic issue New Perspectives on Material Culture and Intermedial Practice.spanfontfont face=Noto Sans [unknown], serifspan 12pxEd. Steven Totosy de Zepetnek, Asuncion Lopez-Varela Azcarate, Haun Saussy, and Jan Mieszkowskispanfont