City by city
Subtitle: dispatches from the American metropolis
By: edited by Keith Gessen, Stephen Squibb
Contributors: Squibb, Stephen, editor
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: n + 1/FARRAR, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 483
ISBN-13: 9780865478312
Subjects: Cities and towns; History
Work titles: Essays
Description: "A collection of essays--historical and personal--about the present and future of American cities Edited by Keith Gessen and Stephen Squibb, City by City is a collection of essays--historical, personal, and somewhere in between--about the present and future of American cities. It sweeps from Gold Rush, Alaska, to Miami, Florida, encompassing cities large and small, growing and failing. These essays look closely at the forces--gentrification, underemployment, politics, culture, and crime--that shape urban life. They also tell the stories of citizens whose fortunes have risen or fallen with those of the cities they call home. A cross between Hunter S. Thompson, Studs Terkel, and the Great Depression-era WPA guides to each state in the Union, City by City carries this project of American storytelling up to the days of our own Great Recession"--

"A collection of essays--historical and personal--about the present and future of American cities"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.