Book review : Rachel Weber (2015) From Boom to Bubble. How Finance Built The New Chicago

Antoine Guironnet (1) , Ludovic Halbert (1)

1 LATTS - Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés

Rachel Weber’s recent book offers a landmark contribution to the scholarship of urban studies. Written in a sharp and vivid style, and drawing from an intimate knowledge of Chicago, From Boom to Bubble constitutes an impressive work. Combining empirically-rich material with theoretically-informed research, Weber achieves the feat of bringing a strikingly new perspective on the much-debated question of why urban development is prone to overbuilding.

Keywords: planning; financialisation; urban political economy; urban redevelopment

Domains: Architecture, space management; Economics and Finance; Sociology; Geography

Antoine Guironnet, Ludovic Halbert. Book review : Rachel Weber (2015) From Boom to Bubble. How Finance Built The New Chicago. Planning Theory and Practice, 2016, pp.668-670. ⟨10.1080/14649357.2016.1230366⟩. ⟨hal-01336517⟩