Main entry:

Condon, Patrick M., author.

Title & Author:

Broken city : land speculation, inequality, and urban crisis / Patrick M. Condon.

Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, [2024]

Description:

xii, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Inequality, Disease, and Urban Land -- The Economics of Urban Land Value -- Henry George and His Relevance Today -- Land Rent, Urban Sprawl, and Transport -- Attempts to Provide Affordable Housing -- The Vienna Model and Its Relevance Today -- Policy Solutions and the Quest for Affordable Housing -- City-Wide Zoning Approaches and a Modern Tax on Rent.
Issued also in electronic format.

Summary:

"How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon, the simple answer is that land has become an asset rather than a utility. If the rich only indulged themselves with gold, jewels, and art, we wouldn't have a global housing crisis. But once global capital markets realized land was a good speculative investment, runaway housing costs ensued. In just one city, Vancouver, land prices increased by 600 percent between 2008 and 2016. How much wealth have investors extracted from urban land? In this engaging, readable, and clearly reasoned treatise, Patrick Condon explains how we have let land, our most durable resource, shift away from the common good--and proposes bold strategies that cities in North America could use to shift it back."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780774869553 paperback
0774869550 paperback
electronic book
9780774869560

Subject:

Land use, Urban.
Housing.
Land speculation.
Equality.
Utilisation urbaine du sol.
Spéculation foncière.
urban land use.
Landgebruik
Grondspeculatie
Stadsplanning
Economische crises

Form/genre:

Canadian nonfiction.

Holdings:

Location: Library main
Copy: 1
Status: On Order