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Gibson, DW

 
9781468308617: The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the 21st Century
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ISBN 10 : 1468308610 ISBN 13 : 9781468308617
Editeur : Overlook Books, 2015

Synopsis

The groundbreaking oral history that tells the stories of New Yorkers effecting and affected by gentrification

If you live in a city—and every year, more and more Americans do—you’ve seen firsthand how gentri­fication has transformed our surroundings. It has so altered the way cities look, feel, cost, and even smell to such an extent that it’s hard to imagine that it could ever have been otherwise.
 
Over the last few years, journalists, policy­makers, critics, and historians have all tried to ex­plain just what it is that happens when new money and new residents flow in, yet we’ve had very little access to the human side of this phenomenon.
 
The Edge Becomes The Center captures the stories of the many kinds of people—brokers, buyers, sellers, renters, landlords, artists, contractors, politicians and everyone in between—who are being shaped by—and are shaping—the new New York City. In this extraordinary oral history, DW Gibson takes gentrification out of the op-ed columns and the textbooks and brings it to life. Gibson explains— in the voices of the people living through it—what urban change really looks and feels like.
 
In the plainspoken, casually authoritative tradition of Jane Jacobs and Studs Terkel, The Edge Becomes The Center is an inviting and essential portrait of the way we live now.

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À propos de l'auteur

DW Gibson is the author of Not Working: People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today’s Changing Economy. His work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The New York Observer, The Daily Beast, BOMB, and The Caravan. Gibson serves as director of Writers Omi at Ledig House in Ghent, New York, which is part of the Omi International Arts Center. He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.

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Éditeur
Overlook Books
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1468308610
ISBN 13 
9781468308617
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
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Personne responsable
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