The Rentier City
Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis
by Isaac Rose
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Pub Date Apr 09 2024 | Archive Date Mar 26 2024
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Description
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.
Advance Praise
"In this remarkable analysis of 300 years of urbanization in Manchester, Isaac Rose articulates how capitalism is always switching gears to siphon value from the city at the expense of working class lives. An important and hopeful book, written in the spirit of resistance against the wreckage of rentier extraction, and an indispensable contribution to our understanding of neoliberal urbanism.”
Tom Slater, Professor of Urban Studies, Columbia University
"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
"A detailed, eye-opening investigation and analysis of the state of Manchester's housing, economy, and everyday experience, with a refreshing focus on the grassroots, providing a welcome dose of reality to relentless Manchester boosterism."
Dave Haslam, author of Manchester, England: The Story of the Pop Cult City
"This is a gripping, un-put-down-able story of the UK’s most shocking city. Stripping bare the relationship between capital, property and the organisation of space, it never loses its focus on the power of resistance as well as the pain of defeat."
Vron Ware, author of Return of a Native
“Finally, here’s the antidote to the decades of Mad Fer It Urban Boosterism that have beset Greater Manchester. This book deserves a place in the pockets of all those in the northern metropolis who refuse to participate in the self-congratulatory rituals of Manctopia.”
Owen Hatherley, author of Red Metropolis: Socialism and the Government of London
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781915672186 |
| PRICE | $19.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 326 |
