{"product_id":"thanks-for-everything-now-get-out-can-we-restore-neighborhoods-without-destroying-them-hardcover","title":"Thanks for Everything (Now Get Out): Can We Restore Neighborhoods Without Destroying Them? - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Margulies\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA radical rethinking of how to make distressed urban neighborhoods more livable while preserving the residents' ability to live there\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"With piercing insights, Joe Margulies compellingly traces the history of one neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, a stand-in for distressed neighborhoods around the country. This utterly original book takes on many of our assumptions about race, poverty, and gentrification-- and tackles the toughest question of all: In restoring these places, do we set them up for destruction?\"--Alex Kotlowitz, author of \u003ci\u003eAn American Summer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When a distressed urban neighborhood gentrifies, all the ratios change: poor to rich; Black and Brown to white; unskilled to professional; vulnerable to secure. Vacant lots and toxic dumps become condos and parks. Upscale restaurants open and pawn shops close. But the low-income residents who held on when the neighborhood was at its worst, who worked so hard to make it better, are gradually driven out. For them, the neighborhood hasn't been restored so much as destroyed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Tracing the history of Olneyville, a neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, that has traveled the long arc from urban decay to the cusp of gentrification, Joseph Margulies asks the most important question facing cities today: Can we restore distressed neighborhoods without setting the stage for their destruction? Is failure the inevitable cost of success? Based on years of interviews and on-the-ground observation, Margulies argues that to save Olneyville and thousands of neighborhoods like it, we need to empower low-income residents by giving them ownership and control of neighborhood assets. His model for a new form of neighborhood organization--the \"neighborhood trust\"--is already gaining traction nationwide and promises to give the poor what they have never had in this country: the power to control their future.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Margulies\u003c\/b\u003e is a civil rights attorney and Professor of the Practice of Law and Government at Cornell University. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eWhat Changed When Everything Changed: 9\/11 and the Making of National Identity\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.26 x 8.58 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 19, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767571972384,"sku":"9780300250015","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6c495ade8ff64f5f65af3905eaa2a8f5.webp?v=1780313307","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/thanks-for-everything-now-get-out-can-we-restore-neighborhoods-without-destroying-them-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}