and its political commitment to adequate and accessible housing. The book is also strong on detail, particularly in relation to Latin America, as might be expected. However, the most powerful and most illuminating sections are when the narrative is about real people: What happened to them? Why? How did they feel? How should we place these stories in the wider, intellectual narrative about financialisation and neoliberalism? At a time when much current academic research on housing and urban studies prioritises the technical and methodological over the conceptual, big data over thick description, the numerous, short vignettes in Rolnik’s book remind us of the effectiveness of a real story to convey a wider message. In this context, I noted with some relief that ‘affordability’ had only two references in the index.

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“亚洲新自由主义城市主义、有争议的城市和住房”评论，由陈奕玲和 Hyun Bang Shin 主编

及其对适足和无障碍住房的政治承诺。正如预期的那样，这本书在细节方面也很出色，尤其是在与拉丁美洲有关的方面。然而，最有力和最有启发性的部分是当叙述是关于真实的人时：他们发生了什么？为什么？他们感觉如何？我们应该如何将这些故事放在关于金融化和新自由主义的更广泛的、知识性的叙述中？在当前许多关于住房和城市研究的学术研究将技术和方法论置于概念、大数据而不是详细描述的时代，罗尔尼克书中众多简短的小插曲提醒我们真实故事可以有效传达更广泛的信息. 在这种情况下，我有些欣慰地注意到“可负担性”在索引中只有两个引用。