{"product_id":"real-estate-histories-of-architecture-and-capital","title":"Real Estate: Histories of Architecture and Capital","description":"\u003cp\u003eReal Estate turns architectural history toward the people who actually build cities: the developers, financiers, builders and media strategists whose pursuit of profit has shaped the modern built environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout this book\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is generally assumed that architects and urban planners shape cities for aesthetic and social ends. Since the onset of global capitalism, however, urban expansion worldwide has been driven largely by developers and builders working in pursuit of profit—and despite the considerable effect of market logic on urban space, the mechanisms of this industry have received comparatively little attention within architectural history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdited by Gregorio Astengo and Davide Spina, this volume gathers contributors who collectively foreground the actors behind real estate development as producers of architecture. It makes the case for real estate as a serious object of architectural-historical inquiry, and—just as usefully—proposes the methods and kinds of evidence needed to study it. Speculative construction from the 18th century to the present emerges as a formative force, deepening our understanding of how cities came to look and function as they do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eKey features\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEdited by Gregorio Astengo and Davide Spina\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContributions from architectural historians including Claire Zimmerman and Chelsea Spencer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEstablishes methods and evidence types for researching real estate within architectural history\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCovers speculative construction from the 18th century to the present\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy the mechanisms of real estate development have remained a blind spot in architectural history, and what is lost by that omission\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow developers, financiers, builders and media strategists function as producers of architecture in their own right\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe research methods and forms of evidence that make speculative construction legible as a historical subject\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow market logic has shaped urban space across three centuries of city-building\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the editors\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGregorio Astengo and Davide Spina are architectural historians whose work centres on the economic and speculative forces behind the built environment. This volume is published by gta Verlag at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zürich.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Softcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 150 x 230 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 320\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISBN: 9783856764852\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Gta Verlag\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublication date: 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePerfect for\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArchitectural historians and theorists, urban researchers working on housing and speculation, and practitioners who want a clearer account of the economic forces their work operates within.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gta Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48954410926305,"sku":"9783856764852","price":87.45,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1116\/0464\/files\/9783856764852.png?v=1787207553","url":"https:\/\/bookshopbyuro.com\/products\/real-estate-histories-of-architecture-and-capital","provider":"Bookshop by Uro","version":"1.0","type":"link"}