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How to kill a city

Gentrification, inequality and the fight for the neighbourhood

by LINTON J
Published in March 2019 - Page 31

Peter Moskowitz
Nation Books, New York, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-568-58523-9

Peter Moskowitz is a journalist living in New York City and his beat is urban affairs. (He’s written for Wired, Slate, The New Republic, and a host of others.) Now, even though the title of his book suggests at the outset that gentrification is “bad,” he freely admits to both contributing to and being affected by the phenomenon. As a relatively privileged white male,

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