How to kill a city: gentrification, inequality, and the fight for the neighborhood

Introduction

Part 1: New Orleans

Chapter 1: Hanging on

Chapter 2: How gentrification works

Chapter 3: Destroy to rebuild

Part 2: Detroit

Chapter 4: The new Detroit

Chapter 5: The 7.2

Chapter 6: How the slate got blank

Part 3: San Francisco

Chapter 7: The gentrified city

Chapter 8: Growth machine

Chapter 9: The new geography of inequality

Part 4: New York

Chapter 10: An Elegy

Chapter 11: New York is not meant for people

Chapter 12: Fight back

Conclusion: Toward an un-gentriied future.

Part 1: New Orleans. Hanging on ; How gentrification works ; Destroy to rebuild

Part 2: Detroit. The new Detroit ; The 7.2 ; How the slate got blank

Part 2: San Francisco. The gentrified city ; Growth machine ; the new geography of inequality

Part 4: New York. An elegy ; New York is not meant for people ; Fight back

Conclusion: Toward an un-gentrified future.