How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

by P.E. Moskowitz and Peter Moskowitz

Book Overview

A journey to the front lines of the battle for the future of American cities, uncovering the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification -- and the lives that are altered in the process. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568585233
• ISBN13: 9781568585239
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Bold Type Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 5.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"