{"product_id":"condo-conquest-9780774860352","title":"Condo Conquest","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen condominiums first emerged in North American cities in the 1960s, they were a new kind of housing governed by boards of resident owners volunteering in a community. \u003cem\u003eCondo Conquest\u003c\/em\u003e shows how the condo and its inner governance have since become something else entirely, taken over  or conquered  by an assemblage of firms specializing in condo law, real estate, security, and property management, as well as growing numbers of non-resident investors who purchase condo units as commodities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the accounts of residents and board directors in Toronto and New York and myriad other sources, Randy Lippert takes a close look at the inner workings of condoization. He shows how condo governance increasingly involves a complex set of legal, social, and spatial relationships among various elements assembled together, including commercial agents, forms of knowledge, and technologies. The first major study of condominium governance in North America, \u003cem\u003eCondo Conquest\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLippert's argument is based on extensive interviews with owners, condo corporation directors, property managers, realtors, and others in Toronto and New York. Lippert builds his case with a close reading of the documents that delineate condo living: statutes that seem to grow more elaborate with each legislative revision, as well as corporation bylaws, reserve fund studies, house-rules documents, and the shorthand legal opinions that flood into condos from the newsletters of lawyers representing boards, property managers, and builders.\u003c\/p\u003e -- John Lorinc * Literary Review of Canada *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Condo Owners and Boards\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Assembling the Condo: Processes, Agents, and Knowledges\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Governing Condo Renters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Condo Governance, Legal Knowledges, and Surveillance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Policing Condo Nuisance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Ups and Downs of Urban Governance: High-Rise Condo Elevators\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Conclusion: Law Reform, Assemblages, and Condo Futures\u003c\/p\u003eNotes; References; Index","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404940943703,"sku":"9780774860352","price":62.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774860352.jpg?v=1730488132","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/condo-conquest-9780774860352","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}