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Drawing on history, comparative politics, and rich case studies of Moscow and Istanbul, Olive shifts our gaze from national to urban politics and identifies land governance as the key to successful and vibrant cities. Accessible, insightful, and well-researched, Owning the City should be required reading for anyone interested in cities in the twenty-first century. -- Tim Frye, Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Politics, Columbia University Marsha McGraw Olive brilliantly employs the nature of land governance to explain the current global liberal/authoritarian divide and to show how property rights translate into political power. A must-read for those who want to understand how politics and economics intersect in our world today. -- Fatma Muge Goecek, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan

Drawing on history, comparative politics, and rich case studies of Moscow and Istanbul, Olive shifts our gaze from national to urban politics and identifies land governance as the key to successful and vibrant cities. Accessible, insightful, and well-researched, Owning the City should be required reading for anyone interested in cities in the twenty-first century. -- Tim Frye, Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Politics, Columbia University Marsha McGraw Olive brilliantly employs the nature of land governance to explain the current global liberal/authoritarian divide and to show how property rights translate into political power. A must-read for those who want to understand how politics and economics intersect in our world today. -- Fatma Muge Goecek, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan

Drawing on history, comparative politics, and rich case studies of Moscow and Istanbul, Olive shifts our gaze from national to urban politics and identifies land governance as the key to successful and vibrant cities. Accessible, insightful, and well-researched, Owning the City should be required reading for anyone interested in cities in the twenty-first century. -- Tim Frye, Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Politics, Columbia University Marsha McGraw Olive brilliantly employs the nature of land governance to explain the current global liberal/authoritarian divide and to show how property rights translate into political power. A must-read for those who want to understand how politics and economics intersect in our world today. -- Fatma Müge Göçek, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan

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Marsha McGraw Olive is Adjunct Professor of European and Eurasian Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.

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