The Battle for Tolmers Square (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Wates, Nick

 
9780415658935: The Battle for Tolmers Square (Routledge Revivals)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415658934 ISBN 13: 9780415658935
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

First published in 1976, this book tells of the dramatic struggle between tenants’ groups, community associations, students, squatters, intellectuals, political parties, and property developers at Tolmers Square in north London. The author describes how property developers, interested only in maximising profits, attempted to redevelop the Tolmers area for offices, while the local authority, pressurised by local tenants and faced with a housing shortage, tried to redevelop for housing. This book is about the politics of central city redevelopment.

Although this text focuses on one particular case study, the same processes operate in all cities where land is used as a commodity for financial speculation. By tracing the Tolmers case in detail, this text demonstrates the forces which operate in city redevelopment, and shows the affect which various forms of opposition can have.

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Wates, Nick

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415658934
ISBN 13 
9780415658935
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
244

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9780415658928: The Battle for Tolmers Square (Routledge Revivals)

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ISBN 10:  0415658926 ISBN 13:  9780415658928
Publisher: Routledge, 2012
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