Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State

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 thirty-six times the value of all the gold ever mined. It forms sixty 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 th...