BIG CAPITAL

We all need a place to live, but in London – and now much of the UK – housing is a financial asset rather than a basic right.
Who is this city for?

'Fierce, incisive, important. Anyone who lives or works in a building should read this book.'

Will Self

Where to buy

The Great London Property Squeeze by Anna Minton

The Long Read, Guardian

PUBLICATIONS

DOORWAYS

Women, homelessness, trauma and resistance

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EVENTS

11 Sep 2019, 18:30 ,Barbican Cinema 1

PUSH (12A) + ScreenTalk with director Fredrik Gertten

PUSH examines one of today’s most urgent issues – the epic transformation of cities into financial instruments – to reveal with devastating clarity the shadowy operations and forces that threaten the very foundations of urban life.

Following Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, and featuring Saskia Sassen and Joseph Stiglitz, the film demonstrates how and why house prices are rocketing, whilst wages are stagnating; a problem with symptoms known by so many, but true causes by so few.

After the screening, director Fredrik Gertten will be in conversation with Anna Minton.

12 September 2019, 19.00 Burley Fisher Books

400 Kingsland Road, E8 4AA, London
Left Book Club – Big Capital with Anna Minton

Join the Left Book Club and Anna Minton for an open discussion on London’s housing crisis. The conversation will be based on Anna’s book, Big Capital: Who is London for?

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COURSE

MRes

READING THE NEOLIBERAL CITY

September 2019

Full time or Part-time

The course addresses the politics of the city and the relationship between architecture and neoliberal forms of control asking the question ‘Who is the city for?’

While the course is located within UEL’s

architecture school, we welcome applicants from different backgrounds and disciplines.

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