How to Kill a City : Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood Headline Review Fifty years old and with

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How to Kill a City : Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood Headline Review Fifty years old and withA 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