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Rentier City : Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis by Isaac Rose (2024, Trade Paperback)

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The Rentier City traces this story, showing how it fits within the longer history of Manchester.

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PublisherWatkins Media The Limited

ISBN-10191567218X

ISBN-139781915672186

eBay Product ID (ePID)6060638394

Product Key Features

Book TitleRentier City : Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis

Number of Pages326 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPolitical Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Social History, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Sociology / Urban

Publication Year2024

GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, History

AuthorIsaac Rose

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight11.4 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Rose's compelling evocation of Manchester as a symptomatic 'rentier city' will provide a crucial reference point for all those seeking a less exploitative and socially polarised urban future." -- Neil Gray, editor of Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle "A remarkable achievement.... The Rentier City is destined to become the definitive account of how and why Manchester has neoliberalised, while also suggesting how a different city trajectory can be realised." -- Paul Watt, Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics "A compassionate account of how Manchester's traditions of ruthless capitalism and contempt for the urban working class got revived and rebranded, demonstrating how local government, property developers and the culture industry have worked together to create a landlord's paradise." -- Owen Hatherley, author of Red Metropolis: Socialism and the Government of London "As a born and bred Mancunian I've been waiting for a book like this for some time! A wonderful, rich, yet accessible, account of the rise, fall and neoliberal resurrection of rentierism in Manchester over the longue durée. A must read for anyone interested in the past, and concerned about the present and future of this paradigmatic city." -- Loretta Lees, international urbanist and scholar-activist, co-author of Gentrification and Planetary Gentrification

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Dewey Decimal307.7609442733

SynopsisHow did Manchester became the poster-child of neoliberal urbanisation, and what can the people that live there do about it? In cities across the world, gentrification and the housing crisis are facts of life. But how did we get to this point? And is there any way we can fight back? A good place to begin answering these questions is Manchester, England. Over the last thirty years, corporate developers, rentier capitalists and boosterist politicians have reshaped Manchester in their image, replacing its working-class communities, public spaces and affordable housing with skyscrapers, luxury developments and a private rental market that creates wealth for rentiers and impoverishes everybody else. The Rentier City traces this story, showing how it fits within the longer history of Manchester. In doing so unveils a larger story of the relationship between capital and our cities, between rentier and rentee, and gives us a blueprint of how fight back against rentier capitalism and take back control of the cities we live in., A good place to begin answering these questions is Manchester, England, Over the last thirty years, corporate developers, rentier capitalists and boosterist politicians have reshaped Manchester in their image, replacing its working-class communities, public spaces and affordable housing with skyscrapers, luxury developments and a private rental market that creates wealth for rentiers and impoverishes everybody else. The Rentier City traces this trajectory, showing how it fits within the longer history of Manchester. In doing so it unveils a larger story of the relationship between capital and our cities, between rentier and rentee, and gives us a blueprint of how to fight back against rentier capitalism and reclaim the cities we live in.

LC Classification NumberHT384.G72M37 2024