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Farrar Straus And Giroux - City By City Dispatches From The American Metropolis - Paperback
Farrar Straus And Giroux - City By City Dispatches From The American Metropolis - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: City By City Dispatches From The American Metropolis
Brand: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780865478312
Pages: 496 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/12/2015
Category: Society & Culture: General
Description: 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.
Title: City By City Dispatches From The American Metropolis
Brand: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780865478312
Pages: 496 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/12/2015
Category: Society & Culture: General
