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A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world – and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.

Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also a weapon, an agent of displacement and exploitation, the currency of kleptocrats and oligarchs. In Britain, it has led to a new class division between those who own and those who don’t.

Property is a vivid, far-reaching analysis of our concept of property ownership, from 16th-century enclosures to the present day. It tells powerful stories – of life in the developer-led boomtown of Gurgaon in India, of the struggles to form Black communities in Missouri and Georgia, of a giant experiment in co-operative living in the Bronx, of the impacts of Margaret Thatcher’s “property-owning democracy.”

Above all, Property asks how we have come to view our homes as investments – and it offers hope for how things could be better, with reform that might enable the social wealth of property to be returned to society.

Book details

• Full title: Property
• Subtitle: The myth that built the world
• Author: Rowan (Architecture Critic) Moore
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780571350094
• ID: 43723824
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 356 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 135 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. November 2023

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