How to Kill a City

“An exacting look at gentrification” ( New York Times Book Review )—and the lives devastated 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 future of American cities as vibrant, equitable spaces hangs in the balance. P. E. Moskowitz’s  How to Kill a