Edward Murphy and Najib B. Hourani are both at Michigan State University, USA.

• List of Figures, Notes on Contributors, Acknowledgments, Introduction: Housing Questions Past, Present, and Future, PART I. PUTTING HIGH MODERNIST PLANNING IN ITS PLACE, 1. Modernity Unbound: Tol’iatti as the New Soviet City Par Excellence, 2. The Transnationalization of the “Housing Problem”: Social Sciences and Developmentalism in Postwar Argentina, 3. Infrastructural Thinking: Urban Housing in Former Czechoslovakia from the Stalin Era to EU Accession, 4. The Politics of Public and Private Space: Housing and Urbanism in Divided Berlin, PART II. THE STATE OF UNEVEN GEOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENTS, 5. The Housing Question of Disaster Reconstruction: Rebuilding New Orleans on the Tenants of an Ownership Society, 6. Public Transit Planning and Austerity in Neoliberal Chicago, 7. Reinventing Favela Aesthetics: From Shacks to Public Housing Buildings, 8. Privatization, Marketization, and the Homeownership Paradox: The Housing Predicaments of China’s Urban Poor, PART III. SPACES OF HOME IN THE CITY OF RIGHTS, 9. Recognizing (Dis)Order: Topographies of Power and Property in Lima’s Periphery, 10. Between Housing and Home: Property Titling and the Dilemmas of Citizenship in Santiago, Chile, 11. Citizenship and the Urban Polity: Right to the City and the Meanings of Home, PART IV FINAL REFLECTIONS, 12. Assemblage and Structure: Toward New Urban Political Economies, 13. Housing Crises, Right to the City, and Citizenship, Bibliography, Index

’This insightful volume places housing at the center of our understanding (examination, exploration) of the urban. By locating the housing question at the nexus of politics, governance and space, Murphy and Hourani realign core urban studies and decenter what is often a U.S. and European based focus. While not neglecting embodied concepts of home, this volume integrates the global and local by drawing upon a range of disciplines and cities in the Global South and Eastern Europe. Ultimately Murphy and Hourani, advocate an approach that is both scholarly and activist, a critical and unique combination for addressing questions of housing inequality today.’ Setha M. Low, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA