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3 Reddit comments about How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood:

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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

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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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