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

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Edward Murphy Najib B. Hourani

The Housing Question

Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City

Edward Murphy, Najib B. Hourani, Professor Laura A. Reese

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Routledge
29 November 2013

Houses, apartments, flats, units; City & town planning - architectural aspects; Homelessness; Urban & municipal planning

Series: Global Urban Studies

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, interdisciplinary energy to the housing question. It explores how housing raises a series of vexing issues surrounding rights, identity, and justice in the modern city. Through finely detailed studies that illuminate national and regional particularities- ranging from analyses of urban planning in the Soviet Union, the post-Katrina reconstruction of New Orleans, to squatting in contemporary Lima - the volume underscores how housing questions matter in a wide range of contexts. It draws attention to ruptures and continuities between high modernist and neoliberal forms of urbanism, demonstrating how housing and the dilemmas surrounding it are central to governance and the production of space in a rapidly urbanizing world.

By: Edward Murphy, Najib B. Hourani
Series edited by: Professor Laura A. Reese
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 760g
ISBN: 9781409462620
ISBN 10: 1409462625
Series: Global Urban Studies
Pages: 322
Publication Date: 29 November 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Edward Murphy and Najib B. Hourani are both at Michigan State University, USA. Edward Murphy, Lewis H. Siegelbaum,, Leandro Benmergui, Kimberly Elman Zarecor, Carolyn Loeb, Christopher Herring, Stephanie Farmer, Sean Noonan, Gustavo Rivera Jr, Guo Chen, Kristin Skrabut, Tony Roshan Samara, Najib B. Hourani, James Holston.

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

'This insightful volume places housing at the center of our understanding (examination, exploration) of the urban. By locating the housing question at the nexus of politics, governance and space, Murphy and Hourani realign core urban studies and decenter what is often a U.S. and European based focus. While not neglecting embodied concepts of home, this volume integrates the global and local by drawing upon a range of disciplines and cities in the Global South and Eastern Europe. Ultimately Murphy and Hourani, advocate an approach that is both scholarly and activist, a critical and unique combination for addressing questions of housing inequality today.'Setha M. Low, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA