All That Is Solid

Danny Dorling

ISBN 10: 0141978198 / ISBN 13: 9780141978192

Published by Penguin, 2015

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In All That is Solid Danny Dorling offers an agenda-shaping look at the UK's dangerous relationship with housing - and how it's all going to come crashing downHousing was at the heart of the financial collapse, and our economy is now precariously reliant on the housing market. In this ground-breaking book, Danny Dorling argues that housing is the defining issue of our times. Tracing how we got to our current crisis and how housing has come to reflect class and wealth in Britain, All That Is Solid shows that the solution to our problems - rising homelessness, a generation priced out of home ownership - is not, as is widely assumed, building more homes. Inequality, he argues, is what we really need to overcome.'An urgent book about an urgent topic' - Lynsey Hanley, New Statesman 'A brilliantly original study of our national obsession' - Nick Cohen, Observer Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor in Geography at the University of Oxford. He has worked both with the British government and the World Health Organization and is frequently asked to comment on current issues on TV and the radio. He has published more than twenty-five books, including Injustice: Why Social Inequality Exists, So You Think You Know About Britain and The 32 Stops for Penguin Underground Lines.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: All That Is Solid
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141978198
• ISBN 13: 9780141978192
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 198W x 129H x 24D millimeters 198 millimeters width by 129 millimeters height by 24 millimeters depth
• Weight: 477 grams

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In All That is Solid, Danny Dorling offers an agenda-shaping look at the UK's dangerous relationship with housing—and how it's all going to come crashing down

Housing was at the heart of the financial collapse, and our economy is now precariously reliant on the housing market. In this groundbreaking book, Danny Dorling argues that housing is the defining issue of our times. Tracing how we got to our current crisis and how housing has come to reflect class and wealth in Britain, All That Is Solid shows that the solution to our problems—rising homelessness, a generation priced out of home ownership—is not, as is widely assumed, building more homes. Inequality, he argues, is what we really need to overcome.

About the Author

Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor in geography at the University of Oxford. He has worked both with the British government and the World Health Organization and is frequently asked to comment on current issues on TV and the radio. He has published more than 25 books, including The 32 Stops, So You Think You Know About Britain?, and Injustice: Why Social Inequality Exists.