How To Kill A City

Author : PE Moskowitz
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568585241
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Kill a City written by PE Moskowitz and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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 future of American cities as vibrant, equitable spaces hangs in the balance. P. E. Moskowitz's How to Kill a City takes readers from the kitchen tables of hurting families who can no longer afford their homes to the corporate boardrooms and political backrooms where destructive housing policies are devised. Along the way, Moskowitz uncovers the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification in New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, and New York. The deceptively simple question of who can and cannot afford to pay the rent goes to the heart of America's crises of race and inequality. In the fight for economic opportunity and racial justice, nothing could be more important than housing. A vigorous, hard-hitting expose, How to Kill a City reveals who holds power in our cities-and how we can get it back.

Author : Doug Griffiths
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 146029758X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 13 Ways to Kill Your Community 2nd Edition written by Doug Griffiths and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 13 Ways to Kill Your Community is lively, full of personality, conversational, breezy, succinct, and fun. One can imagine readers seeking out information on boosting their local community sighing dutifully as they seek out material and then being relieved and delighted when what they find turns out to be as entertaining as it is informative. The information provided is sometimes startling and often positively revelatory. The anecdotes and examples are delivered with wit and a little bit of a dishy factor. But underneath all the fun is a clear breadth of experience, and a no-nonsense, practical approach to community building, which can be easily grasped. 13 Ways to Kill Your Community offers practical, implementable steps that can be taken to bring a moribund community back to life. This book delivers what it promises, and it does so with wit and warmth....

Author : Tiffanie DeBartolo
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402250398
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Kill a Rock Star written by Tiffanie DeBartolo and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Funny, tender, edgy. I wanted the love story to go on forever."—Joan Johnston, bestselling author of No Longer a Stranger Written in the wonderfully honest, edgy, and hilarious voice she perfected in God-Shaped Hole, Tiffanie DeBartolo shines in a passionate new story of music, love, and sacrifice. Eliza Caelum, a young music journalist, is finally getting her footing in New York when she meets Paul Hudson, a talented songwriter and lead singer of the band Bananafish. They soon realize they share more than a reverence for rock music and plunge headlong into love. When Bananafish is signed by a big corporate label, and Paul is on his way to becoming a major rock star, Eliza's past forces her to make a heartbreaking decision that might be the key to Paul's sudden disappearance. A layered and emotional look into the world of music, this raw summer read will resonate with readers who loved Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Praise for Tiffanie DeBartolo's God-Shaped Hole: "From highs to heartbreak, DeBartolo conjures an affair to remember."—People "Honest, raw, and engaging."—Booklist "This generation's Love Story."—Kirkus Reviews

Author : Matias Nespolo
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409041700
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seven Ways to Kill a Cat written by Matias Nespolo and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There's seven ways to kill a cat. But when it comes down to it, there's only two ways. In a civilised fashion or like a fucking savage'. In Buenos Aires, the economy has collapsed and people are protesting on the streets. But in the barrio, life goes on - the slums of the city are ruled by gangs, drugs and guns. Gringo and Chueco are almost adults, and joining the gang warfare that governs their community seems inevitable. Chueco thinks he can join El Jetita's gang but remain his own man, Gringo knows this can't happen - you obey the leader or else. As the two get drawn ever deeper into the turf war between El Jetita and his rival Charly, Gringo sees an alternative way of life, and love, pass before his eyes. A few days ago he and Chueco were joking about killing cats; now he's fighting to save his skin.

Author : Ash Thayer
Publisher : powerHouse Books
ISBN 13 : 9781576877340
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kill City written by Ash Thayer and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being kicked out of her apartment in Brooklyn in 1992, and unable to afford rent anywhere near her school, young art student Ash Thayer found herself with few options. Luckily she was welcomed as a guest into See Skwat. New York City in the '90s saw the streets of the Lower East Side overun with derelict buildings, junkies huddled in dark corners, and dealers packing guns. People in desperate need of housing, worn down from waiting for years in line on the low-income housing lists, had been moving in and fixing up city-abandoned buildings since the mid-80s in the LES. Squatters took over entire buildings, but these structures were barely habitable. They were overrun with vermin, lacking plumbing, electricity, and even walls, floors, and a roof. Punks and outcasts joined the squatter movement and tackled an epic rebuilding project to create homes for themselves. The squatters were forced to be secretive and exclusive as a result of their poor legal standing in the buildings. Few outsiders were welcome and fewer photographers or journalists. Thayer's camera accompanied her everywhere as she lived at the squats and worked alongside other residents. Ash observed them training each other in these necessary crafts and finding much of their materials in the overflowing bounty that is New York City's refuse and trash. The trust earned from her subjects was unique and her access intimate. Kill City is a true untold story of New York's legendary LES squatters.

Author : Peter Moskowitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781568587615
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Kill a City written by Peter Moskowitz and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Peter Moskowitz's How to Kill a City takes readers from the kitchen tables of hurting families who can no longer afford their homes to the corporate boardrooms and political backrooms where destructive housing policies are devised. Along the way, Moskowitz uncovers the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification in New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, and New York. The deceptively simple question of who can and cannot afford to pay the rent goes to the heart of America's crises of race and inequality. In the fight for economic opportunity and racial justice, nothing could be more important than housing. A vigorous, hard-hitting expose, How to Kill a City reveals who holds power in our cities-and how we can get it back.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1669353907
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Peter Moskowitz's How To Kill A City written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-13T22:59:00Z with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 New Orleans neighborhoods do not work like those in other cities. The rich live on higher ground, and the poor live in the valleys. This has given New Orleans a chaotic topography of inequality. #2 New Orleans has been experiencing a gentrification of its neighborhoods, with national media outlets publishing articles and stories about the city’s magical hedonism. But the city’s priorities have been made clear by the fact that while officials have gone on media tours celebrating the economic growth of the city, they have stopped tracking or even talking about its still-exiled population. #3 I met many African Americans in New Orleans who still referred to the area as St. Thomas, even after it was redeveloped and renamed the Irish Channel or the Lower Garden District. #4 Bigard has struggled to find a job since Katrina. She has worked in nonprofit organizations for nearly twenty years, but now is trying to expand her horizons to scrape together cash. She has been showing desks for lease in a co-working space in a renovated building on a newly gentrified block.

Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Peter Moskowitz's How To Kill A City written by Milkyway Media and published by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 New Orleans neighborhoods do not work like those in other cities. The rich live on higher ground, and the poor live in the valleys. This has given New Orleans a chaotic topography of inequality. #2 New Orleans has been experiencing a gentrification of its neighborhoods, with national media outlets publishing articles and stories about the city’s magical hedonism. But the city’s priorities have been made clear by the fact that while officials have gone on media tours celebrating the economic growth of the city, they have stopped tracking or even talking about its stillexiled population. #3 I met many African Americans in New Orleans who still referred to the area as St. Thomas, even after it was redeveloped and renamed the Irish Channel or the Lower Garden District. #4 Bigard has struggled to find a job since Katrina. She has worked in nonprofit organizations for nearly twenty years, but now is trying to expand her horizons to scrape together cash. She has been showing desks for lease in a coworking space in a renovated building on a newly gentrified block.

Author : Erica Stein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000606155
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Media and the City written by Erica Stein and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together leading scholars from around the world and across scholarly disciplines, this collection of 32 original chapters provides a comprehensive exploration of the relationships between cities and media. The volume showcases diverse methods for studying media and the city and posits "media urbanism" as an approach to the co-construction and interactions among media texts and technologies, media users, media industries, media histories, and urban space. Chapters serve as a guide to humanities-based ways of studying urban imaginaries, infrastructures and architectures, development and redevelopment, and strategies and tactics as well as a provocation toward new lines of inquiry that further explore the dense interconnectedness of media and cities. Structured thematically, the chapters are organized into four distinct sections, introduced with editorial commentary that places the chapters into conversation with each other and frames them in relation to an overarching question, problem, or method. Part I: Imaginaries and cityscapes focuses on screen representations and mediated experiences of urban space produced and consumed by various actors; Part II: Architectures and infrastructures highlights the different ways in which built environments and socio-technical substrates that sustain differential mobilities, urban rhythms, and systems of circulation and exchange are intertwined with various forms of media and mediation; Part III: Development and redevelopment examines efforts by urban planners and designers, municipal governments, and community organizers to utilize media forms to imagine and shape the construction of the space and meaning of the city; finally, Part IV: Strategies and tactics uses categories for practices of control and resistance to investigate media and struggles for power within urban environments from surveillance and place-branding to activist media and the right to the city. The Routledge Companion to Media and the City provides a definitive reference for both scholars and students of urban cultures and media within the humanities.

Author : Robert Pins
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546296549
Total Pages : 1028 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Kill an Elephant written by Robert Pins and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global warming will either grab your interest or see you running in the opposite direction. But there is another way. It is a truth that is never realized, a truth that cannot surface once buried in the media and in politicians’ singlespeak, and a truth that is tantalizingly beyond your reach. How to Kill an Elephant exposes this truth for all to see, yet this is not a book about global warming; it is a book about human nature exposed for all its inadequacies. It starts with elephants, inexorably being driven to extinction by elephants of our own creation. Where does it finish? That’s for you to decide. Fancy a cane toad sandwich washed down with a cup of tea? Have you ever seen stalactites playing chess? You can expect a deadly serious read with a soupçon of levity and straightforward humour, because life really is too short not to indulge a little.