Renovating Value: HGTV and the Spectacle of Gentrification

by Robert Goldman

HGTV has perfected stories about creating and capturing value in the housing market. But according to Robert Goldman, this lifestyle network's beloved flagship programs, Flip or Flop, Property Brothers, and Fixer Upper-where people revitalize modern spaces and reinvent property values-offer "fairy tales" in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis. The cable channel's seductive, bingeable programs may show how to find and extract value...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439920486
• ISBN13: 9781439920480
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"