Broken City

Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-05-15
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt420 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor274
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774869553

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Patrick M. Condon is a professional city planner, teacher, and researcher with over forty years of experience in sustainable urban design. Patrick has taught in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia since 1992. He is the author of three previous books, including Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities and Five Rules for Tomorrow's Cities.A pioneer of public engagement, Patrick understands collaboration as a fundamental part of designing sustainable communities. He has successfully focused attention on strategies for inspiring systemic change in city-building and operations, notably in the East Clayton project in Surrey, British Columbia. More recently, he and his research partners collaborated with the City of North Vancouver to produce a 100-year plan to make the city carbon-neutral by 2107. Patrick and his partners' work received the Canadian Institute of Planners Award for Planning Excellence and the BC Union of Municipalities Award of Excellence. Patrick Condon lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

"….readable, provocative, and satisfying…" - Setha Low, The Planning Report "Condon writes in a clear, accessible style that makes the daunting, highly politicized housing crisis topic approachable and understandable...he makes the book both relatable and compelling...a must-read for anyone interested in the future of our cities, and is a call to action; challenging us to rethink urban development and advocate for policies that put people first."- Ryan Mitchell (BC Review) "Condon's book stimulates thought about today's most important urban policy problems"- F. H. Smith, Davidson College (CHOICE Connect) "The book is a must-read … Its accessible writing style and plain language, combined with a robust theoretical foundation and empirical examples, make it an excellent resource for anyone seeking to understand the complexities of urban land markets and their social implications."- Paul Boniface Akaabre, University of Alberta (Journal of Urban Affairs) "Prof. Condon sees high urban land value as the underlying culprit, a fact that has increased the equity of homeowners, who represent around 65 per cent of Canadians. The point he is making is evident to anyone who has reviewed their home assessment – that the land is much more valuable than the home that sits on it." - Kerry Gold (Globe and Mail)