Condo Conquest: Urban Governance, Law, and Condoization in New York City and Toronto (Law and Society) - Hardcover

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Lippert, Randy K.

 
9780774860369: Condo Conquest: Urban Governance, Law, and Condoization in New York City and Toronto (Law and Society)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0774860367 ISBN 13: 9780774860369
Publisher: UBC Press, 2019

Synopsis

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 nonresident 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.

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About the Author

Randy K. Lippert is professor of criminology and sociology at the University of Windsor.

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Publisher
UBC Press
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0774860367
ISBN 13 
9780774860369
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
300

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