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Empower! Essays on the political economy + political ecology of urban form, vol.3

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This third volume in the “Essays on the Political Economy of Urban Form” series addresses contemporary power relations and their effects on urban and natural landscapes. Edited by Marc Angélil and Rainer Hehl, it explores geopolitics in the Amazon, Ecuador’s infrastructural subtraction, circulatory urbanism in Mumbai and urban development on Brazil’s frontier. It traces the economic exploitation and anthropology that drove widespread ecocide in the Amazon basin, and how accessible rail transport in India challenges artificial distinctions between urban and rural.

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Collectivize! Essays on the political economy of Urban form vol.2

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Collectivize! makes a case for the rehabilitation of the idea of the “common”. By taking the reader on a trip through built social laboratories and fictional utopias (or dystopias), this collection of four essays explores the role of collective ownership and identity in an increasingly individualized and compartmentalized world. With diverse contributions by Massimo De Angelis, Jesse Le Cavalier, Arno Brandlhuber and Christian Posthofen, and Zvi Efrat.

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Minha Casa - nossa cidade! : innovative mass housing for social change in Brazil

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In 2009, Brazil launched a low-cost housing programme to fill a deficit of seven million homes. This publication, produced by the MAS Urban Design Programme, examines the project at a critical time and presents ways to improve it. Three chapters review its history and implementation, the ingenuity of Brazilian architecture, and present proposals for housing based not on private ownership but on the greater vision for the city as a common project.