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City by City

By Keith Gessen

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City by City

By Keith Gessen

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From its first shock waves in 2008, the Great Recession has been reshaping American cities. Detroit collapsed, and the ongoing national rollback in industry has meant the death of factory towns like Greensboro, North Carolina and Reading, Pennsylvania. But the effects of the crash have been far from uniform. The populations of gentrifying cities such as San Francisco and Brooklyn continue to expand, with rents soaring and neighborhood demographics changing overnight. Providence, Rhode Island is experiencing a civic renaissance that disguises lingering corruption in its political system. The two hundred citizens of Whittier, Alaska, have been approached about starring in a reality TV show. And racial profiling by police in cities like Cincinnati, Palm Coast, and Baltimore has set the stage for protests that have swept the nation. City by City, edited by Keith Gessen and Stephen Squibb, is a collection of essays from a new generation of writers working to document the places they call home. With the specificity of Studs Terkel and the humor of Hunter S. Thompson, they capture the forces-gentrification, underemployment, politics, culture, and crime-that are changing the lives of their neighborhoods, their neighbors, and themselves.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
496
Release Date:
2015-05-12
Publication Date:
2015-05-12
Publisher:
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0865478317
ISBN13:
9780865478312
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
676 g
Height:
141 cm
Width:
209 cm
Thickness:
29 cm
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