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The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the 21st Ce...
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- Overlook Press
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- ISBN
- 1468313010
- ISBN10
- 1468313010
- ISBN13
- 9781468313017
- EAN
- 9781468313017
- Book Title
- Edge Becomes the Center : an Oral History of Gentrification in the 21st Century
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Abrams, Inc.
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Social Science
- Topic
- Sociology / General, Sociology / Urban
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 9.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Winner of the 2015 Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize!The groundbreaking oral history of gentrification.
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Publisher
Abrams, Inc.
ISBN-10
1468313010
ISBN-13
9781468313017
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221701608
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Book Title
Edge Becomes the Center : an Oral History of Gentrification in the 21st Century
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Social Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
9.1 Oz
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This might be the most important city book of the year, essential reading for anyone who cares about New York, or life in the metropolis anywhere. Gibson has managed to get a diverse group of New Yorkers to open up their hearts and minds about gentrification, the defining civic issue of our time. I raced through the book, traveling with Gibson as he surfs from story to story in the great, imperiled city. A riveting, timely portrait of the greatest, richest, unfairest city in the world., A noisy, tender tour of New York much in the mode of Studs Terkel...Mr. Gibson is a skilled and sensitive interlocutor with an eye for the revealing gesture...Mr. Gibson lets the city speak for itself, and it speaks with charm, swagger and heartening resilience., 21st century New York, which Bill de Blasio decried as A Tale of Two Cities, has yet to reveal its Dickens. But with THE EDGE BECOMES THE CENTER, DW Gibson makes a strong claim to being its Studs Terkel. A riveting exploration of gentrification and its discontents, as told by a refreshingly panoramic chorus of voices., Whatever I thought of New York gentrification before reading THE EDGE BECOMES THE CENTER, it's all up in the air now, dispersed into the dazzling, extremely intelligent, funny, expert multifarious speech of the people DW Gibson interviewed for this amazing book. Reading it has transformed my understanding of the urban experience generally, humanizing and explaining, brilliantly, what before had seemed intimidating, abstract, even monstrous. A piece of masterful human scale architecture in itself, THE EDGE BECOMES THE CENTER feels like 'a new part of New York,' a vital new center of the city's perpetual conversation with itself and the world., As, building by building, the 'undiscovered' neighborhoods of New York City are assimilated into the portfolios of hedge funds and the beneficiaries of inequality, DW Gibson captures precarious voices that might otherwise go unheard forever. This is an indispensable, enthralling work of social history., A generous, vigorous, and enlightening look at class and space in New York; it ought to be required reading...Gibson has found vibrant humanity in a subject that is, paradoxically, lacking in it...The Edge Becomes the Center raises critical questions about what we expect from our cities and how groups become communities. Mainly, though, it's a joy to read, its chorus of voices a reminder of oral history's power. Anyone who cares about the shape and gestalt of life in New York--and anyone who believes in cities as centers of culture--will come away moved.
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