Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781119853602
Year: 2023
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)


Description:
HOUSING BOOMS IN GATEWAY CITIES

?David Ley examines the development of housing booms, and policies intended to stimulate or limit them. Utilising a comparative approach in five gateway cities, he provides a superb understanding of the politics of booms, lifting the debate beyond narrow housing and real estate studies. This book is required reading for anyone interested in global cities, housing markets, or comparative urbanism.?
?Manuel B. Aalbers, Professor of Human Geography, KU Leuven, Belgium

?A stellar contribution to housing and its financialisation as central to the capitalist project globally, Housing Booms offers a wonderful window into the ascendancy of the secondary circuit of real estate in Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney, Vancouver, and London. Critically, through careful, empirically rigorous comparison, an eminent urban social scientist urges us to understand the importance of placing urban housing theoretically.?
?Loretta Lees, Director of the Initiative on Cities, Boston University

?Mastering a wealth of information and insights from five gateway cities, David Ley provides fresh and inspiring explanation of both common global logics and diverse local trajectories of housing booms in the era of financialisation and asset-based accumulation. A timely and ground-breaking contribution, (re)positioning housing to the centrality pervasively felt in everyday life but largely unacknowledged in mainstream social science.?
?George Lin, Chair Professor of Geography, University of Hong Kong

In Housing Booms in Gateway Cities, renowned geographer Dr