Year: 2023
Type: book-review
Abstract: push out again the boundaries of possibility (Stephens, 2020); at a historical moment when this is most needed.The reviewed monograph, in conclusion, invites the reader to buy into an original narrative that reconciles 'more new houses' with 'more power to rental tenancy and renter' in the quest for cities everyone can afford.I am confident that everyone will learn something new.The author's intention for less contentious debates in the constant search for 'win-win' may inspire many.I therefore recommend this book for purchase.Phillips' problematic mixing of (relatively) low-hanging fruit for change with some supercontentious macro-propositions, and the omission of critical 'beyond-agency'-literatures means argumentative coherence and necessary intellectual footing are compromised.But this 'critical intellectualisation' of his rich collection of practice-earned wisdom snippets could, and indeed should, be undertaken by others.References
Source: Dialogues in Urban Research
Author: Shane Phillips
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4381884430