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Someone should send Frey and Bender a copy of How To Kill a City
https://www.amazon.com/How-Kill-City-Gentrification-Neighborhood/dp/1568585233
The Real Estate Page As Colonial Dispatch
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Real Estate sections are mostly breezy, fun profiles of the super rich buying up houses and remodeling the ones they already own. Harmless escapist fun? Maybe. But how we write about real estate often reveals casually racist and colonial attitudes that are rarely, if ever, examined.
In this episode we talk about why the way we talk about the real estate business matters and how the white civilizing mission never went away. With guest Aaron Cantú.
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Show notes
Media and the ‘Melting Pot’: Putting a harmonious spin on gentrification
-Aaron Cantú | January 1, 2015 | FAIR
When NYT Real Estate Stories Read Like 19th Century Colonial Dispatches
-Adam Johnson | May 2, 2016 | FAIR
Media and the ‘Melting Pot’
-Adam Johnson | January 1, 2015 | FAIR
Party Like It’s 1992
-Bobby London | September 5, 2017 | The New Inquiry
Remembering The Lost Communities Buried Under Center Field
-Janice Llamoca | October 31, 2017 | NPR
Referenced
Upper Upper West Side Attracting New Settlers
-Philip S. Gutis | March 9, 1986 | The New York Times
Pulling Out of Fort Apache, the Bronx; New 41st Precinct Station House Leaves Behind Symbol of Community's Past Troubles
-Ian Fisher | June 23, 1993 | The New York Times
Veterans Remember 'Fort Apache'
-Larry McShane | June 30, 2002 | Associated Press
America's Next Great City Is Inside L.A.
Brett Martin | January 6, 2014 | GQ
Detroit: A New American Frontier
-Aaron Renn | July 20, 2011 | Yes! Magazine
Racist emails show Chicago official joked about 'safari' tour to see violence in black neighborhoods
-Ray Long & Todd Lighty | July 17, 2017 | Chicago Tribune
Everybody's Laughing at the Video of an Angry White Guy Claiming He 'Settled' Brooklyn
-September 23, 2015 | Vice
Recommendations
The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City [PDF]Neil Smith | 1996
Greening the urban frontier: Race, property, and resettlement in Detroit [PDF]Sara Safransky | August 17, 2014 | Geoforum
Is There Room for Black People in the New Detroit?Suzette Hackney | September 28, 2014 | Politico
The Permanent Crisis of Housing
-David Madden & Peter Marcuse | October 2, 2016 | Jacobin
The Steady Destruction of America’s Cities
-Gillian B. White | March 9, 2017 | The Atlantic
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality and the Fight for the Neighborhood - Peter Moskowitz, Nation Books (2017)
The Works of Mike Davis
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