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Author Moskowitz, Peter, 1988- author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Nation Books, [2017]

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  307.33 MOSKOWITZ    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  307.3362 MOSKOWITZ    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  307.3 MOSKOWITZ    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  307.3362 MOS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  307.33 MOS    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  307.33 MOSKOWITZ    Check Shelf
Description vii, 258 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography 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.
Summary 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. A vigorous, hard-hitting expose, How to Kill a City reveals who holds power in our cities-and how we can get it back.
Subject Gentrification -- United States.
Equality -- United States.
Urban poor -- United States.
Middle class -- United States.
Equality. (OCoLC)fst00914456
Gentrification. (OCoLC)fst00940296
Middle class. (OCoLC)fst01020437
Urban poor. (OCoLC)fst01162512
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Middle class.
Middle class -- United States.
Equality.
Gentrification.
United States.
ISBN 9781568585239 hardcover
1568585233 hardcover
9781568585246 electronic book
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