Theory of Housing Provision under Capitalism

Mike Berry is Emeritus Professor of Urban Studies and Public Policy in the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University, Australia.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Building from First Principles.- Part I: Housing as a Commodity.- Chapter 2: Housing as a use value.- Chapter 3: The Production of Housing.- Chapter 4: The Realisation of Housing.- Part II: Housing as a Land-use.- Chapter 5: The Territorial Imperative.- Chapter 6: The Theory of Urban Land Rent.- Chapter 7: Landed Property: An Historical Excursion.- Part III: Housing and Social Reproduction.- Chapter 8: The Extended Reproduction of Labour Power.- Chapter 9: The Social Construction of the Home 1: Culture.- Chapter 10: The Social Construction of the Home 2: Gender and Age.- Chapter 11: Housing and Class in the neoliberal Era.- Part IV: Housing and the State.- Chapter 12: Housing and the Myth of the ‘Free Market’.- Chapter 13: Housing, Wealth and Power.- Chapter 14: The Housing – Macro Nexus.- Part V: Navigating the Future.- Chapter 15: The Project: Architect Not Bee.- Chapter 16: Countering the Counter-Attack.- Chapter 17: Concluding Comments – The Limits to Capital.