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

Peter Moskowitz,

P.E. Moskowitz

Start date: October 7, 2020

Finish date: December 2, 2020

Why we're reading this: Because it's about gentrification and spans across 4 cities. I like the comparative aspect as well. …more
[close] Because it's about gentrification and spans across 4 cities. I like the comparative aspect as well.

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Mar 14, 2024 DW Rowlands rated it liked it

Shelves: topic-cities-detroit, category-pop-nonfic, topic-cities, topic-cities-nyc, recs-urban-book-club

This was interesting both for some of the specifics of what's going on with the redevelopment of New Orleans and Detroit, and because it goes through the Marxist position on redevelopment and gentrification in detail. That said, I think it mostly demonstrated some of the incoherence in that position, and it's often hard to tell whether Peter Moskowitz's objection is displacement, aesthetics, or privatization...some of his concerns make sense to me, but I'm not convinced he really grasps the caus ...more

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