Building Beyond Capitalism: Community Ownership as Counterproject?

Harvard GSD

The built environment is not neutral. It is produced through systems of settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and financialization that create spatial conditions of disinvestment, dispossession, and extraction. What does it take to build a counterproject to status-quo development? This seminar examines the foundational logic of land ownership in the United States and the role ownership has played in shaping both historic and contemporary notions of the “American Dream.” It explores who…