The Housing Question

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