Summary of Peter Moskowitz's How To Kill A City

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 New Orleans neighborhoods do not work like those in other cities. The rich live on higher ground, and the poor live in the valleys. This has given New Orleans a chaotic topography of inequality.
#2 New Orleans has been experiencing a gentrification of its neighborhoods, with national media outlets publishing articles and stories about the city’s magical hedonism. But the city’s priorities have been made clear by the fact that while officials have gone on media tours celebrating the economic growth of the city, they have stopped tracking or even talking about its still-exiled population.
#3 I met many African Americans in New Orleans who still referred to the area as St. Thomas, even after it was redeveloped and renamed the Irish Channel or the Lower Garden District.
#4 Bigard has struggled to find a job since Katrina. She has worked in nonprofit organizations for nearly twenty years, but now is trying to expand her horizons to scrape together cash. She has been showing desks for lease in a co-working space in a renovated building on a newly gentrified block.

Sujets

• Public policy

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 13 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669353904
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Peter Moskowitz's How to Kill a City
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

New Orleans neighborhoods do not work like those in other cities. The rich live on higher ground, and the poor live in the valleys. This has given New Orleans a chaotic topography of inequality.

#2

New Orleans has been experiencing a gentrification of its neighborhoods, with national media outlets publishing articles and stories about the city’s magical hedonism. But the city’s priorities have been made clear by the fact that while officials have gone on media tours celebrating the economic growth of the city, they have stopped tracking or even talking about its still-exiled population.

#3

I met many African Americans in New Orleans who still referred to the area as St. Thomas, even after it was redeveloped and renamed the Irish Channel or the Lower Garden District.

#4

Bigard has struggled to find a job since Katrina. She has worked in nonprofit organizations for nearly twenty years, but now is trying to expand her horizons to scrape together cash. She has been showing desks for lease in a co-working space in a renovated building on a newly gentrified block.

#5

Mitch Landrieu, then Louisiana’s lieutenant governor and now New Orleans’s mayor, designated Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard one of four urban Main Streets in 2006, allowing the city to funnel money to street improvements. The other urban Main Streets are also located in rapidly gentrifying areas.

#6

Gentrification is the process of reorienting the purpose of a city away from being a place that provides for the poor and middle classes and toward being a place that generates capital for the rich.

#7

In every gentrifying city, whether it is a few pioneers or a combination of new coffee shops and condos, hipsters, and families struggling to hang on, you can usually trace the start of that change back to federal, local, and state policies that favor the creation of wealth over the creation of community.

#8

New Orleans has always been hostile toward its Black population. After Katrina, many in the city wished to rid themselves of the poor Black neighborhoods and replace them with rich white people.

#9

The first rule of the rebuilding effort should be: Nothing Like Before. Most of the ambitious and organized people have abandoned the inner-city areas of New Orleans. If we just put up new buildings and allow the same people to move back into their old neighborhoods, then urban New Orleans will become just as run-down and dysfunctional as before.

#10

After the storm, many white volunteers and professionals came to replace the black middle class labor that was lost.

#11

The arrival of new people is out of Bigard’s control, but she is bothered by their lack of appreciation for what makes New Orleans unique. They don’t seem to understand that having a city full of music sometimes involves people playing instruments and making noise next door at odd hours.

#12

The term gentrification was coined in 1964 by British sociologist Ruth Glass. It describes the upheaval of certain neighborhoods by the middle-class gentry from the countryside.

#13

The first phase of gentrification is when individuals, supported by no government or large institution, decide to move into a poor neighborhood and renovate houses. The second phase is when those attracted to the neighborhood because of the change begin buying up real estate.

#14

The fifth and final phase of gentrification is when neighborhoods aren’t just more welcoming to capital than to people, but cease being places where people can live a normal life and become luxury commodities.