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A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.

About the Author

Rowan Moore is the award-winning architecture critic of the Observer and author of Slow Burn City (Picador, 2016) and Why We Build (Picador, 2012). He was formerly Director of the Architecture Foundation, architecture critic of the Evening Standard and editor of Blueprint magazine.