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How to kill a city : gentrification, inequality, and the fight for the neighborhood / Peter Moskowitz.
Author
Moskowitz, P. E., 1988-
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York, NY : Nation Books, [2017]
Description
vii, 258 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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HT175 .M67 2017
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Gentrification
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United States
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Equality
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United States
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Urban poor
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Middle class
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Summary note
"The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don't realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as vibrant, equitable spaces hangs in the balance. Peter Moskowitz's How to Kill a City takes readers from the kitchen tables of hurting families who can no longer afford their homes to the corporate boardrooms and political backrooms where destructive housing policies are devised. Along the way, Moskowitz uncovers the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification in New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, and New York. The deceptively simple question of who can and cannot afford to pay the rent goes to the heart of America's crises of race and inequality. In the fight for economic opportunity and racial justice, nothing could be more important than housing. How to Kill a City reveals who holds power in our cities--and how we can get it back."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-245) and index.
Contents
Part 1: New Orleans. Hanging on ; How gentrification works ; Destroy to rebuild
Part 2: Detroit. The new Detroit ; The 7.2 ; How the slate got blank
Part 2: San Francisco. The gentrified city ; Growth machine ; the new geography of inequality
Part 4: New York. An elegy ; New York is not meant for people ; Fight back
Conclusion: Toward an un-gentrified future.
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Gentrification, inequality, and the fight for the neighborhood
ISBN
9781568585239 ((hbk.))
1568585233 ((hbk.))
9781568589039
1568589034
LCCN
2016042410
OCLC
961098510
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40027116850
13048307
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