Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (637 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01M8JE845 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 242 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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This Is A Very Important Book! This book is a mind opener. While those of us who have lived in New York for countless generations have been aware that the city changes over time, and seldom overall for the better, we disconnected the earlier patterns of urban destruction from the accelerated pace that we've seen in the past generation. But Moss has traced the current t. Amazon Customer said Up there with Jane Jacobs' "The Death and Life of Great American Cities.". As seminal a book as Jane Jacobs' "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," only with a greater sense of urgency, about the deadening homogenization of New York and other great cities. Astonishingly well-rersearched but without pedantry and leavened with personal observations of an adopted New Yorker, this book is a not so much a lov. Great read! Long live the best city on Earth. Pre-ordered and received today. I live in Manhattan this has so far been an addicting read. I can feel and share the authors pain for the lost vibe of the city, especially Manhattan and Brooklyn. Highly recommend checking this book out if like he states you romanticize Woody Allen NY themed films and can appreciate why the gritty Travis B
In Vanishing New York, he reports on the city’s development in the twenty-first century, a period of "hyper-gentrification" that has resulted in the shocking transformation of beloved neighborhoods and the loss of treasured unofficial landmarks. But today, modern gentrification is transforming the city from an exceptional, iconoclastic metropolis into a suburbanized luxury zone with a price tag only the one percent can afford.A Jane Jacobs for the digital age, blogger and cultural commentator Jeremiah Moss has emerged as one of the most outspoken and celebrated critics of this dramatic shift. In prose that the Village Voice has called a "mixture of snark, sorrow, poeticism, and lyric wit," Moss leads us on a color
Grab a knish and settle in.” ( Charles Bock, New York Times bestselling author of Alice and Oliver)“A vigorous, righteously indignant book that would do Jane Jacobs proud.” (Kirkus)“One of the most thorough and pugnacious chroniclers of New York’s blandification.” (The Atlantic)“For those of us who’ve watched hopelessly as our beautiful city has turned into an assortment of Duane Reades and Starbucks, this book is a must-read. “I haven’t read a more impassioned book in over a decade. Future generations, assuming there are any, will read it in wonder and disbelief.” (Luc Sante)&ld