Property, 9780571350094
Paperback
Property: Promise and weapon, wealth and division, hope and reform.

Property

the myth that built the world

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    5 February 2024

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Summary

Property: Ownership, Power, and the Illusion of Freedom

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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780571350094
ISBN-10:0571350097
Author:Rowan Moore
Publisher:Faber & Faber
Imprint:Faber & Faber
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:5 February 2024
Weight:347g
Dimensions:216mm x 135mm x 24mm
About The Author

Rowan Moore

Rowan Moore is the award-winning architecture critic of the Observer and author of Slow Burn City (Picador, 2016) and Why We Build (Picador, 2012). He was formerly Director of the Architecture Foundation, architecture critic of the Evening Standard and editor of Blueprint magazine.

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