Gentrifier (UTP Insights)

Gentrifier opens up a new conversation about gentrification, one that goes beyond the statistics and the clichés, and examines different sides of a controversial, deeply personal issue. In this lively yet rigorous book, John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, and Marc Lamont Hill take a close look at the socioeconomic factors and individual decisions behind gentrification and their implications for the displacement of low-income residents. Drawing on a variety of perspectives, the authors present interviews, case studies, and analysis in the context of recent scholarship in such areas as urban sociology, geography, planning, and public policy. As well, they share accounts of their first-hand experience as academics, parents, and spouses living in New York City, San Diego, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Providence. With unique insight and rare candour, Gentrifier challenges readers' current understandings of gentrification and their own roles within their neighborhoods. A foreword by Peter Marcuse opens the volume.

• How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
• The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
• The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It
• Urban Renewal or Urban Removal? A Grassroots Look a Chicago's Land Grabs and the Struggle for Home and Community
• Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
• In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis
• Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law)
• Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State