NEW BOOK:

CAPITAL CITY
BY SAMUEL STEIN

OUT NOW

“This superbly succinct and incisive book couldn’t be more timely or
urgent.” – Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the Map

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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 world—the president of the United
States—made 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-led 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.

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“Samuel Stein’s lucid explanation for how we got to where we’re 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

“Want to know why the rent’s 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 couldn’t be more
timely or urgent.” – Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the Map

“Samuel 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 Cityputs it all together, the
theory and the practices of urban transformation, with a timely and
urgent appeal. This is a lively user’s guide to the changing landscape
of the American city.” – Peter Marcuse, co-author of In Defense of
Housing

Paperback: ISBN 9781786636393/ £9.99

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