Buy land – they’re not making it any more Concepts

Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

by Sandy Tolan · 1 Jan 2006 · 488pp · 150,477 words

the emergence of an angry class of landless peasants. In al-Ramla, townspeople told of a Jewish man from Tel Aviv who was making the rounds, trying to buy more land. It was said that another of Ahmad's uncles, the doctor Rasem Khairi, had angrily sent the man away. Shukri Taji, a cousin

Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers

by Stephen Graham · 8 Nov 2016 · 519pp · 136,708 words

, much of the old centre of Hebron has been violently remodelled as a sterile and highly militarised security landscape.30 Terraforming; Making Ground The old adage, ‘Buy land – they’re not making it any more’ is no longer true! – René Kolman, ‘New Land in the Water’ Artificial ground – and its attendant archaeospheres – does not just

First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents

by Gary Ginsberg · 14 Sep 2021 · 418pp · 134,401 words

. His relationship with Lincoln gave him a social cachet that translated into enhanced business opportunities. Doors opened that allowed him to make more profitable investments, purchase more desirable tracts of land, and even buy a hotel. Companies that witnessed his wartime leadership helping to keep Kentucky in the Union sought his wisdom; public service organizations

Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency

by Vicky Spratt · 18 May 2022 · 371pp · 122,273 words

still won’t protect you. There is a long-held maxim, attributed to both Mark Twain and the American folk humourist Will Rogers: ‘Buy land – they’re not making any more of it.’ If you have a mortgage and pay it off, over time you accrue equity and increase your ownership over your home

How to Kill a City: The Real Story of Gentrification

by Peter Moskowitz · 7 Mar 2017 · 288pp · 83,690 words

it is developers’ profit motive that causes massive, citywide change. The city wasn’t always profitable. Up until the 1960s, developers could make much more money in the suburbs—buying land cheaply, constructing single-family houses, and taking advantage of a burgeoning mortgage industry to sell to the (mostly white) middle and upper classes

Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice

by Molly Scott Cato · 16 Dec 2008

(1975) Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health, London: Calder and Boyars. 34 Barry and Doherty, ‘The greens’, p. 600. 12 Land and the Built Environment Buy land: they’re not making it any more Mark Twain As discussed in Chapter 3, within the green economics perspective land is a vital part of human and community

Value of Everything: An Antidote to Chaos The

by Mariana Mazzucato · 25 Apr 2018 · 457pp · 125,329 words

labour, machinery, seeds and water. The other type cannot be scaled: good arable land. As Mark Twain is supposed to have said, ‘Buy land, they're not making it any more.' Since the population will grow thanks to investment and rising wages, and more and more food will need to be produced to feed

The Asian Financial Crisis 1995–98: Birth of the Age of Debt

by Russell Napier · 19 Jul 2021 · 511pp · 151,359 words

been assigned as a surveillance officer to follow him. Claret: shrinking supply, rising demand 8 May 1996, Regional Mark Twain once famously remarked, “Buy Land – they’re not making any more.” Twain was wrong. Within a few years, the Flatiron building was completed on an ‘unbuildable’ site in New York and the Back Bay

The Land Grabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth

by Fred Pearce · 28 May 2012 · 379pp · 114,807 words

African Water Grab Chapter 26. Badia, Jordan: On the Commons Chapter 27. London, England: Feeding the World Notes on Sources Index Introduction “Buy land. They’re not making it any more.” —Mark Twain Soaring grain prices and fears about future food supplies are triggering a global land grab. Gulf sheikhs, Chinese state corporations, Wall

Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?

by Brett Christophers · 17 Nov 2020 · 614pp · 168,545 words

1993 translates into a CAGR of 7.0 per cent – which is nothing short of extraordinary. Figure 7.4 UK real land price index, 1980–2017 ‘Buy land; they’re not making any more of it’, in the famous words variously attributed to the American humourists Will Rogers and Mark Twain. This injunction has arguably