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Condo Conquest

Author : Randy K. Lippert
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774860383
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Condo Conquest written by Randy K. Lippert and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When condominiums first emerged in North American cities in the 1960s, they were a new kind of housing governed by boards of resident owners volunteering in a community. Condo Conquest shows how the condo and its inner governance have since become something else entirely, taken over – or conquered – by an assemblage of commercial interests specializing in condo law, real estate, security, and property management, as well as growing numbers of non-resident investors. Drawing on the accounts of residents and board directors in Toronto and New York and myriad other sources, Randy Lippert reveals how a growing reliance on commodified technologies, emergent forms of knowledge, and the exploitation of renters are threatening the condo’s future and undermining the integrity of urban communities.

Condominium Governance and Law in Global Urban Context

Author : Randy K. Lippert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000335828
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Condominium Governance and Law in Global Urban Context by : Randy K. Lippert

Download or read book Condominium Governance and Law in Global Urban Context written by Randy K. Lippert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines condominium, property, governance, and law in international and conceptual perspective and reveals this urban realm as complex and mutating. Condominiums are proliferating the world over and transforming the socio-spatial organization of cities and residential life. The collection assembles arguably the most prominent scholars in the world currently working in this broad area and situated in multiple disciplines, including legal and socio-legal studies, political science, public administration, and sociology. Their analyses span condominium governance and law on five continents and in nine countries: the United States (US), China, Australia, the United Kingdom (UK), Canada, South Africa, Israel, Denmark, and Spain. Neglected issues and emerging trends related to condominium governance and law in cities from Tel Aviv to Chicago to Melbourne are discerned and analysed. The book pursues fresh empirical inquiries and cogent conceptual engagements regarding how condominiums are governed through law and other means. It includes accounts of a wide range of governance difficulties including chronic anti-social owner behaviour, short-term rentals, and even the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they are being dealt with. By uncovering crucial cross-national commonalities, the book reveals the global urban context of condominium governance and law as empirically rich and conceptually fruitful. The book will appeal to researchers and students in socio-legal studies, law, sociology, political science, urban studies, and public administration as well as journalists, social activists, policymakers, and condo owners/board members.

Inside High-Rise Housing

Author : Megan Nethercote
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529216281
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Inside High-Rise Housing written by Megan Nethercote and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Condominium and comparable legal architectures make vertical urban growth possible, but do we really understand the social implications of restructuring city land ownership in this way? Geographer and architect Megan Nethercote enters the condo tower to explore the hidden social and territorial dynamics of private vertical communities. Informed by residents’ accounts of Australian high-rise living, this book shows how legal and physical architectures fuse in ways that jeopardize residents’ experience of home and stigmatize renters. As cities sprawl skywards and private renting expands, this compelling geographic analysis of property identifies high-rise development’s overlooked hand in social segregation and urban fragmentation, and raises bold questions about the condominium’s prospects.

Condoland

Author : James T. White
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774868414
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Condoland written by James T. White and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Condoland casts CityPlace – a massive residential development of more than thirty condominium towers just outside Toronto’s downtown core – as a microcosm of twenty-first-century urban intensification. Built almost entirely by a single private developer, this immense neighbourhood took decades to plan, design, and develop, but the end result lacks a sense of place and is not widely accessible to those who need homes: only a small number of its 13,000 units constitute affordable housing, and public amenities are limited. In this richly illustrated volume, James T. White and John Punter reveal the stories behind the design, architecture, and planning of CityPlace. They also consider the tools used to shape Toronto’s built environment and critically assess the underlying political economy of planning and real estate development in the city. Condoland raises key questions about the long-term sustainability and resilience of Canadian cities that acquiesce to the rapacious development industry.

Producing and living the high-rise: New contexts, old questions?

Author : Manoel Rodrigues Alves
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648899293
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Producing and living the high-rise: New contexts, old questions? written by Manoel Rodrigues Alves and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the book is to assess the process of urban verticalization in different contexts through time, to provide insight into the relationships between highrise design and the way inhabitants negotiate them in their everyday lives, to assess how planners, politicians, and designers negotiate residential highrises in the strategies they develop for building the city and to introduce urban narratives and cartographies. Verticalization, although not new, currently takes place in a very different context than post-1945. Today, highrise residential buildings are more than architectural solutions: they are commodities in a global market where capital flows are fixed by developers and municipalities. Our exploration of residential verticalization is anchored in case studies, revealing different types of local-global negotiations in the design of the city, and has been framed by three interrelated dynamics: first, the complex relationships within the financialization of real estate markets, revealing differences in the types of local-global negotiations in the construction of the neo-liberal city; secondly, the most developed, anchors residential verticalization in the processes of socio-spatial differentiation within cities (mostly identified as gentrification associated to processes of urban renewal and densification; the third, related to readings and interpretations of the urban landscape and social, spatial practices and its iconographic and cartographic representations. This book is of interest to academics, students, planners, architects, and urban studies professionals. It shows that the chosen research object is an increasingly relevant angle of analysis of the contemporary city. It also provides a better knowledge of the processes of residential verticalization, their impact on the privatization of the urban space, and on urban segregation or fragmentation.

The Co-Op Bible

Author : Sylvia Shapiro
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312194475
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (944 download)

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Download or read book The Co-Op Bible written by Sylvia Shapiro and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author knows about what she speaks. She is a lawyer and president of her Manhattan co-op building. She had no prior knowledge of co-op and condo conversion before her residence went that way, and she had to learn and learn fast. Now she shares the expertise she's accrued, and she presents it in a well-ordered format. Guiding readers into a co-op or condo situation and ensuring their future of comfortable and productive living are the purposes of Shapiro's handbook; and to that end she supplies a complete codification of all the rules and necessary procedures. Dealing with the board is, of course, the major concern of a co-op or condo owner, and Shapiro is encouraging and explicit as she draws up the appropriate behavior to guarantee a successful board relationship. A book for all public libraries. - Brad Hooper; 368p-

Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

Author : Leslie Kern
Publisher : Between the Lines
ISBN 13 : 1771135859
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies written by Leslie Kern and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time. Gentrification is no longer a phenomenon to be debated by geographers or downplayed by urban planners—it’s an experience lived and felt by working-class people everywhere. Leslie Kern travels to Toronto, Vancouver, New York, London, and Paris to look beyond the familiar and false stories we tell ourselves about class, money, and taste. What she brings back is an accessible, radical guide on the often-invisible forces that shape urban neighbourhoods: settler-colonialism, racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, and more. Gentrification is not inevitable if city lovers work together to turn the tide. Kern examines resistance strategies from around the world and calls for everyday actions that empower everyone, from displaced peoples to long-time settlers. We can mobilize, demand reparations, and rewrite the story from the ground up.

Geographies of Displacement/s

Author : Kendra Strauss
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000885518
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Displacement/s written by Kendra Strauss and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-29 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assembles cutting edge contemporary research and thinking on multiple forms and meanings of displacements and their geographies: patterns of shifting, dislocation, or putting out of place; substitutions of one idea for another or the unconscious transfer of intense feelings or emotions; activities occurring outside their normal context; and replacements of one thing by another. The COVID-19 pandemic, declared by the World Health Organization in 2020, produced new displacements and intensified existing patterns of displacement and dispossession. At the same time, socionatural displacements - floods, fires, droughts, hurricanes, sea-level rise, species loss, and dislocation - were the backdrop to the displaced and deferred hopes of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The chapters in this volume contend with how we as geographers conceptualize and theorize displacements; the range of sites, spaces, processes, affects, scales, and actors we study with to understand them; and what is at stake politically in how we research displacements. It is also a pandemic archive of academic labor, in which we find traces of displacements within and beyond the academic discipline of geography. Geographies of Displacement/s will be of particular interest to students, scholars and researchers of Geography including those interested in human geography, socio-natural displacements, and the politics of migration and displacement. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

The Justice Crisis

Author : Trevor C.W. Farrow
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774863609
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book The Justice Crisis written by Trevor C.W. Farrow and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfulfilled legal needs are at a tipping point in much of the Canadian justice system. The Justice Crisis assesses what is and isn’t working in efforts to strengthen a fundamental right of democratic citizenship: access to civil and family justice. Contributors to this wide-ranging overview of recent empirical research address key issues: the extent and cost of unmet legal needs; the role of public funding; connections between legal and social exclusion among vulnerable populations; the value of new legal pathways; the provision of justice services beyond the courts and lawyers; and the need for a culture change within the justice system.

A Criminology of Policing and Security Frontiers

Author : Lippert, Randy
Publisher : Bristol University Press
ISBN 13 : 1529202515
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book A Criminology of Policing and Security Frontiers written by Lippert, Randy and published by Bristol University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policing and security provision are subjects central to criminology. Yet there are newer and neglected forms that are currently unscrutinised. By examining the work of community safety officers, ambassador patrols, conservation officers, and private police foundations, who operate on and are animated by a frontier, this book reveals why criminological inquiry must reach beyond traditional conceptual and methodological boundaries in the 21st century. Including novel case studies, this multi-disciplinary and international book assembles a rich collection of policing and security frontiers both geographical (e.g. the margins of cities) and conceptual (dispersion and credentialism) not seen or acknowledged previously.

By the Court

Author : Peter McCormick
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774861746
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book By the Court written by Peter McCormick and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any court watcher knows that the Supreme Court of Canada delivers some of its major constitutional judgments in a “By the Court” format. This transformative approach abandons the common law tradition of attributing decisions to individual judges. By the Court is the first major study of these unanimous and anonymous decisions and features a complete inventory, chronology, and typology of these cases. Peter McCormick and Marc Zanoni explore the origins, purposes, and potential future of “By the Court,” framing this practice as uniquely Canadian, and the most dramatic form of a modern style that highlights the institution and downplays individual contributions.

Research Handbook of Comparative Criminal Justice

Author : Nelken, David
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839106387
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook of Comparative Criminal Justice written by Nelken, David and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from leading experts in the field, this timely Research Handbook reconsiders the theories, assumptions, values and methods of comparative criminal justice in light of the challenges and opportunities posed by globalisation, deglobalisation and transnationalisation.

The Routledge Handbook of Property, Law and Society

Author : Nicole Graham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000737551
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Property, Law and Society written by Nicole Graham and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook brings together diverse perspectives, major topics, and multiple approaches to one of the biggest legal institutions in society: property. Property touches on many fundamental human questions. It involves decisions about power, economy, morality, work, and ecology. It also involves ideas about where humans fit in the world and how humans relate to more-than-human life. This book will ask in myriad ways such questions as: what property means, what kinds of property there are, what is and should be the relationship between owned and owner, and what is the impact of different forms of property on life in this world? Drawing on a range of socio-legal and empirical methodologies, renowned scholars and rising stars in property from around the world present current issues and map future directions in research. Coming from the place of law but reaching out through cognate disciplines, this handbook provides a comprehensive and accessible survey of current research at the interface of property, society, and the environment. This handbook will appeal to students and researchers across a range of disciplines, including law, sociology, geography, history, and economics.

Women Traders in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Author : Linda J. Seligmann
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804764018
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Women Traders in Cross-Cultural Perspective written by Linda J. Seligmann and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative volume studies women as economic, political, and cultural mediators of space, gender, value, and language in informal markets. Drawing on diverse methodologies—multisited fieldwork, linguistic analysis, and archival research—the contributors demonstrate how women move between and knit together household and marketplace activities. This knitting together pivots on how household practices and economies are translated and transferred to the market, as well as how market practices and economic principles become integral to the nature and construction of the household. Exploring the cultural identities and economic practices of women traders in ten diverse locales—Bolivia, Ghana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Peru, and the Philippines—the authors pay special attention to the effects of global forces, national economic policies, and nongovernmental organizations on women’s participation in the market and the domestic sector. The authors also consider the impact that women’s economic and political activities—in social movements, public protests, and more hidden kinds of subversive behavior—have on state policy, on the attitudes of different sectors of society toward female traders, and on the dynamics of the market itself. A final theme focuses on the cultural dimension of mediation. Many women traders straddle cultural spheres and move back and forth between them. Does this affect their participation in the market and their identities? How do ties of ethnicity or acts of reciprocity affect the nature of commodity exchanges? Do they create exchanges that are neither purely commodified nor wholly without calculation? Or is it more often the case that ethnic commonalities and reciprocity merely mask the commodification of social and economic exchanges? Does this straddling lead to the emergence of new kinds of hybrid identities and practices? In considering these questions, the authors specify the ways in which consumers contribute to identity formation among market women.

The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories

Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher : Merriam-Webster
ISBN 13 : 9780877796039
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories written by Merriam-Webster, Inc and published by Merriam-Webster. This book was released on 1991 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gold mine of word histories for reference or browsing. Covers the origins of 1,500 words. Over 600 engagingly written articles. Explore the stories behind our vocabulary.

The People Are King

Author : S. Elizabeth Penry
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195161602
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The People Are King written by S. Elizabeth Penry and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The People Are King traces the transformation of Andean communities under Inca and Spanish rule. The sixteenth century Spanish resettlement policy, known as Reducción was pivotal to this transformation. Modeled on the Spanish ideal of República (self-government within planned towns) and shared sovereignty with their monarch, Spaniards in the Viceroyalty of Peru forced Andeans into resettlement towns. Andeans turned the tables on forced resettlement by making the towns their own, and the center of their social, political, and religious lives. Andeans made a coherent life for themselves in a complex process of ethnogenesis that blended preconquest ways of life (the ayllu) with the imposed institutions of town life and Christian religious practices. Within these towns, Andeans claimed the right to self-government, and increasingly regarded their native lords, the caciques, as tyrants. A series of microhistorical accounts in these repúblicas reveals that Andeans believed that commoner people, collectively called the común, could rule themselves. With both Andean and Spanish antecedents, this political philosophy of radical democracy was key to the Great Rebellion of the late eighteenth-century. Rather than focusing on well-known leaders such as Tupac Amaru, the book demonstrates through commoner rebels' holographic letters that it was commoner Andean people who made the late eighteenth-century a revolutionary moment by asserting their rights to self-government. In the final chapter the book follows the commoner-lead towns of the Andes from the era of independence into the present day of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. Ayllu, Reducción, ethnogenesis, Peru, Bolivia, cacique, Tupac Amaru, comunero, revolution, microhistory"--

Police Funding, Dark Money, and the Greedy Institution

Author : Randy K. Lippert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000583929
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Police Funding, Dark Money, and the Greedy Institution written by Randy K. Lippert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Police Funding, Dark Money, and the Greedy Institution is about a pervasive but little-studied phenomenon. Private funding of public police entails private entities sending resources to police through unconventional or hidden channels, sometimes for suspect reasons. The book argues police acquisition of this "dark money" befits the notion of a "greedy institution" that pursues resources beyond ample public funding and needs, and seeks ever more loyal members beyond its traditional boundaries to reproduce itself. The book focuses on private police foundations, corporate sponsorships, and paid detail arrangements primarily in North America, how these funding networks operate and are framed for audiences, and the forms and volumes of capital they generate. Based on interviews with police representatives, sponsors, funders, and foundation representatives as well as records from over 100 police departments, this book examines key issues in private funding of public police, including corporatization, accountability, corruption, and the rule of law. It documents and analyzes the troubling explosion of police foundations and sponsors and corporate paid detail brokers unknown to the public as a social and policy issue and a hidden response to the global police defunding movement. The book also considers potential policy responses and community safety alternatives in a more generous society. An accessible and compelling read, students and scholars in criminology, criminal justice, law, sociology, political science, anthropology, geography, as well as policymakers, will find this timely book revealing of a neglected, growing area of police practice spanning multiple themes and jurisdictions.