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Thanks for Everything (Now Get Out) by Joseph Margulies
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Thanks for Everything (Now Get Out)

Can We Restore Neighborhoods without Destroying Them?

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Narrator Mike Lenz

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Length 8 hours 7 minutes
Language English
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Summary

When a distressed urban neighborhood gentrifies, all the ratios change: poor to rich; Black and Brown to white; unskilled to professional; vulnerable to secure. Vacant lots and toxic dumps become condos and parks. Upscale restaurants open and pawn shops close. But the low-income residents who held on when the neighborhood was at its worst, who worked so hard to make it better, are gradually driven out. For them, the neighborhood hasnโ€™t been restored so much as destroyed.



Tracing the history of Olneyville, a neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, that has traveled the long arc from urban decay to the cusp of gentrification, Joseph Margulies asks the most important question facing cities today: Can we restore distressed neighborhoods without setting the stage for their destruction? Is failure the inevitable cost of success? Based on years of interviews and on-the-ground observation, Margulies argues that to save Olneyville and thousands of neighborhoods like it, we need to empower low-income residents by giving them ownership and control of neighborhood assets. His model for a new form of neighborhood organizationโ€”the "neighborhood trust"โ€”is already gaining traction nationwide and promises to give the poor what they have never had in this country: the power to control their future.

Audiobook details

Narrator:
Mike Lenz

ISBN:
9781666150346

Length:
8 hours 7 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc

Publication date:

Edition:
Unabridged

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