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As New York City’s Black, Brown, immigrant, and low-income communities, like many others in major cities across the nation, find themselves in the crossfire of gentrification, here are some books, articles, and other resources to help navigate the gentrification of these five boroughs. If you have a published piece, organization, or other resource for consideration to add to this list, contact us.
Articles
“A Right To Housing!”, The Design Program in Design and Urban Ecologies at Parsons
“Change or Die”? Gentrification in Brooklyn, Humanity in Action
“Does ‘Artwashing’ Blur the Line Between Beautification and Gentrification?”, Bedford & Bowery
“Five Things You Can Do About Gentrification in New York City” by Tom Angotti
“Gentrification: A Timeline”, Next City
“Gentrifying the City: From Racialized Neglect to Racialized Reinvestment”, Social Science Research Council
“How Gentrification Powers New York City’s Tourism Industry”, Skift
“Mapping Displacement and Gentrification in the NYC Metropolitan Area”, Urban Displacement Project
“Right to the City” by David Harvey
"The Connection Between the Arts and Neighborhood Diversity" by Richard Florida
“The Criminalization of Gentrifying Neighborhoods”, The Atlantic
“The Harmful Effects of Gentrification on NYC’s Low-Income Black & Latino Populations”, Blavity
“The Plan for Chinatown and Surrounding Areas: Preserving Affordability & Authenticity”, Chinatown Working Group Plan
“The Role of Art in Navigating Bushwick’s Gentrification Minefield”, The Bklyner
"The Spaces of Gentrification" by Michael R. Allen
“Who Are the Real Culprits Behind Hyper Gentrification?”, The Bridge
"You Can't Evict a Movement" by Conor Tomás Reed, Manissa McCleave Maharawal and Alma Sheppard-Matsuo
Books
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood by PE Moskowitz
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman
Root Shock: Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It by Dr. Mindy Fullilove
The Assassination of New York by Bob Fitch
The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City by Neil Smith
When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City by Tom Angotti and Sylvia Morse
Films
“Break and Enter aka Squatters (Third World Newsreel collection/library)
“Changing Face of Harlem” by Shawn Batey
“Rezoning Harlem”