Thanks for Everything Now Get Out: Can We Restore Neighborhoods Without Destroying Them? Margulies Joseph

A radical rethinking of how to make distressed urban neighborhoods more livable while preserving the residents' ability to live thereWhen a distressed urban neighborhood gentrifies, all the ratios change: poor to rich; Black and Brown to white; unskilled to professional; uninsured to insured; food insecure to food secure. But the people who originally lived there--enduring miserable conditions for years and working hard to change them--are gradually driven out. Vacant lots become condos, junkyards become parks, and trendy new restaurants open.

Is failure the inevitable cost of success? For them, the neighborhood hasn't been restored so much as destroyed.Focusing on the Olneyville section of Providence, Rhode Island, Joseph Margulies asks, Can we rebuild such neighborhoods without setting the stage for their destruction? His answer is based on years of interviews and