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Gentrification

Not in My Backyard

by Sami Emory,

Amid Berlin’s affordable housing shortage, urban gardens have been sowing unrest

The Death of a Once Great City

by Kevin Baker,

The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence

The Death of New York City

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Kevin Baker, Jeremiah Moss

In this inaugural episode of The Harper’s Podcast, Kevin Baker and Jeremiah Moss discuss the decline of New York City

Miami

by Edwidge Danticat,

On May 13, 2017, I was standing on the back of a pickup truck and addressing a couple hundred or so protesters gathered in front of the Miami field office…

Coming Apart

by Rebecca Solnit,

In early 2015, fire ravaged a three-story building at the corner of 22nd and Mission in San Francisco. The blaze killed Mauricio Orellana, an immigrant from El Salvador, and destroyed…

Realty Bites

by D.W. Gibson,

From a conversation with Raul, a resident of Manhattan, included in The Edge Becomes the Center, an oral history of gentrification in New York City, by D. W. Gibson, out…

Silicon Ally

by Richard Rodriguez,

From an interview with Richard Rodriguez published in the Spring 2014 issue of Boom: A Journal of California. Rodriguez is the author, most recently, of Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography, excerpted…

Vanity fair

by Peter McCabe,

Gentrification

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