num_pages: 320
description: The groundbreaking oral history that tells the stories of New Yorkers effecting and affected by gentrification If you live in a cityand every year more and more Americans doyouve seen firsthand how gentrification has transformed our surroundings. It has so altered the way cities look feel cost and even smell to such an extent that its hard to imagine that it could ever have been otherwise. Over the last few years journalists policymakers critics and historians have all tried to explain just what it is that happens when new money and new residents flow in yet weve had very little access to the human side of this phenomenon. Up and Coming captures the stories of the many kinds of peoplebrokers buyers sellers renters landlords artists contractors politicians and everyone in betweenwho are being shaped byand are shapingthe new New York City. In this extraordinary oral history DW Gibson takes gentrification out of the op-ed columns and the textbooks and brings it to life. Gibson explains in the voices of the people living through itwhat urban change really looks and feels like. In the plainspoken casually authoritative tradition of Jane Jacobs and Studs Terkel Up and Coming is an inviting and essential portrait of the way we live now.
language: English
title: The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the 21st Century
publisher: Abrams Press