Book launch: Construction site, for profit
Besides the authors, the volume will be presented by our guests, Sorin Gog (sociologist), and Silviu Medeșan (architect).
The event will take place in the frame of World Habitat Day (October 7), organized in Cluj by Căși sociale ACUM / Social housing NOW.

In 2018 the authors of the volume have documented the construction sites in the area Ploiești-Someșului-Anton Pann-Abator-Parcul Feroviarilor through interviews, archive materials, photographs. The resulting volume is not an academic study, in the sense that it does not elaborate a scientifically referenced narrative with the aim of circulating it in academic settings. Neither is it an undertaking that targets the institutions of power through formulating policy advises. Our study rather offers a critical and reflexive insight into the phenomenon, being a product of public sociology, circulated among different publics.
The volume is not the simple textual mirror of the exhibition that was opened in November 2018 (https://www.facebook.com/events/740852879606418/). It is more than that, because in each of its chapters, as well as in the volume as a whole we try to establish relations between the exhibited materials, while through different forms of contextualization we offer a reading, assumed by us as authors, of the current urban redevelopment process, as a manifestation of financialized capitalism based on real estate development.