How to kill a city : gentrification, inequality, and the fight for the neighborhood / Peter Moskowitz.

Author
Moskowitz, P. E., 1988- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York, NY : Nation Books, [2017]
Description
vii, 258 pages : maps ; 24 cm

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    "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.
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    Other title(s)
    Gentrification, inequality, and the fight for the neighborhood
    ISBN
    • 9781568585239 ((hbk.))
    • 1568585233 ((hbk.))
    • 9781568589039
    • 1568589034
    LCCN
    2016042410
    OCLC
    961098510
    Other standard number
    • 40027116850
    • 13048307
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