Property: The myth that built the world

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Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it's also a weapon, an agent of displacement and exploitation, the currency of kleptocrats and oligarchs. Property is a vivid, far-reaching analysis of our concept of property ownership and a powerful examination of how it shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.

'Moore situates property where it belongs - in the centre of virtually every aspect of our lives.' Sunday Times

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