Peter Moskowitz is a freelance journalist who has covered a wide variety of issues, from environmental disasters to the vestiges of racist urban planning. A former staff writer for Al Jazeera America, they have written for the Guardian, New York Times, NewYorker.com, New Republic, Wired, Slate, Buzzfeed, Splinter, VICE, and many others. They are a graduate of Hampshire College and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Moskowitz's next book will be about free speech and fascism. They live in Philadelphia.
"How to Kill a City is a convincing and persuasive argument
that the U.S. has a serious problem with affordable housing that is
not going away any time soon."--Booklist
"[An] exacting look at gentrification in New Orleans, Detroit, San
Francisco and New York, exposing how large institutions-goverments,
businesses, foundations-influence street-level processes that might
appear as organic as the coffee shop's dark roast. ... How to
Kill a City elucidates the complex interplay between the forces
we control and those that control us."--New York Times Book
Review
"A fascinating analysis of late-stage gentrification in which
corporate control of cities renders them uninhabitable to most
people. Showing how gentrifiers exploit 'someone else's loss' as a
consequence of long histories of racist policy, Peter Moskowitz
calls for a global movement against this 'new form of segregation,
' defining housing as a human right rooted in community instead of
real estate profit."--Sarah Schulman, author of Gentrification of
the Mind and The Cosmopolitans
"A forceful critique of gentrification and its impact on
disempowered members of American society."--Library Journal
"Gentrification takes a community's personal tragedy, loss and
destruction, and monetizes it. Understanding how this happens, and
how individuals may unwittingly find themselves a part of it is
what makes Moskowitz's book so important. It isn't a lesson about
what happened, it's a warning about what is happening
now."--Truthout
"Moskowitz is a talented and impassioned writer...[H]e pokes, prods
and listens. He finds holes in official stories and gifted
storytellers among people who have been steamrolled."--San
Francisco Chronicle
"Moskowitz...pulls no punches in his depiction of
gentrification...He paints a vivid and grim picture of the future
of American cities."--Kirkus
"Movingly conveys [gentrification's] emotional and sometimes tragic
toll as he highlights its stark racial realities in Detroit, San
Francisco, New York and New Orleans."--Washington Post
"Peter Moskowitz offers a smartly written and fiercely logical
indictment of city governments for selling out longtime residents
to aggressive developers and rich investors, and calling it growth.
This book is a wake-up call to communities to say no to
state-sponsored gentrification and join together to resist their
own demise."--Sharon Zukin, author of Naked City: The Death and
Life of Authentic Urban Places
"When it comes to housing and urban development, as with other
aspects of American life, Moskowitz makes clear that the heft of
one's purse and the color of one's skin are determinative. How
to Kill a City is an indictment of a system that places making
a home for capital above making homes for people."--Santa Barbara
Independent
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