Description
Book SynopsisThis eye-opening study shows how the condo, developed to meet the needs of a community of owners in cities in the 1960s, has been conquered by commercial interests.
Trade ReviewLippert'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.
-- John Lorinc * Literary Review of Canada *
Table of Contents1 Introduction
2 Condo Owners and Boards
3 Assembling the Condo: Processes, Agents, and Knowledges
4 Governing Condo Renters
5 Condo Governance, Legal Knowledges, and Surveillance
6 Policing Condo Nuisance
7 Ups and Downs of Urban Governance: High-Rise Condo Elevators
8 Conclusion: Law Reform, Assemblages, and Condo Futures
Notes; References; Index
