Real Estate: Histories of Architecture and Capital public-space Moving between prose and poetry

Moving between prose and poetry

and the mediation of pain: these are among the subjects treated in this collection of essays by art historian and critic Ina Blom

in its infinite variations

and continue to witness

Real Estate: Histories of Architecture and Capital public-space Moving between prose and poetryIt is commonly assumed that architects and urban planners are responsible for the design of our cities. However, particularly since the advent of global capitalism, urban expansion worldwide has been driven primarily by developers and construction companies in their pursuit of profit. Although the market driven impacts on urban space are considerable, the mechanisms of this influential industry have received comparatively little attention in