Capital City
Gentrification and the Real Estate State
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Narrateur(s):
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Emily Beresford
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Auteur(s):
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Samuel Stein
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Our cities are changing. Around the world, more and more money is being invested in buildings and land. Real estate is now a $217 trillion-dollar industry, worth 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined. It forms 60 percent of global assets, and one of the most powerful people in the world - the president of the United States - made his name as a landlord and developer.
Samuel Stein shows that this explosive transformation of urban life and politics has been driven not only by the tastes of wealthy newcomers, but by the state-driven process of urban planning. Planning agencies provide a unique window into the ways the state uses and is used by capital, and the means by which urban renovations are translated into rising real estate values and rising rents.
Capital City explains the role of planners in the real estate state, as well as the remarkable power of planning to reclaim urban life.
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- Robgoren
- 2019-09-03
Why Wheel Estate is the Millenial's Future
Eye-opening and blood-boiling, this is a devastating exposure of the Real Estate State & the collusion between big finance, big developers & urban planners.
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- Jonathan Mutch
- 2025-06-06
The Billy Madison Effect in Urban Planning
Capital City by Samuel Stein reads like a Marxist zine that wandered into a planning conference, convinced it had something useful to say. The thesis? That planners are agents of capital, gentrification is orchestrated state violence, and salvation lies in “decommodifying housing.” That’s not analysis—it’s ideological cosplay.
The worst part isn’t just that it’s wrong—it’s that to the uninitiated, it sounds like a serious primer. In reality, this book is a textbook case of the Billy Madison effect: everyone listening is now dumber for having heard it. It doesn’t educate—it indoctrinates.
Stein cherry-picks anecdotes, misrepresents them, and presents a cartoon version of urban planning. He shows no understanding of risk, capital flows, or how planners actually operate within political and financial constraints. His “solution” is a faith-based slogan without structure, safeguards, or any grasp of tradeoffs.
If you want real insight into cities or housing, look elsewhere. This isn’t a serious contribution—it’s a dogmatic screed.
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