The Creative Destruction of New York City
Engineering the City for the Elite
“New York didn’t become a city for the 1% by accident, and this book is essential reading for understanding how it all happened.” Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul Naked City and Loft Living Adventures in Old New York The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime, and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco The Englewood Review of Books Urban Studies Gentrification and Planetary Gentrification New York for Sale Radical Rags: Fashions of the Sixties Dissent Magazine The Creative Destruction of New York City tells the story of fifteen years of shocking urban changes in New York City under the administrations of Bloomberg and de Blasio, and identifies the urban regime of city producers who are rebuilding cities like New York for a brand new global class of super-wealthy city consumers.The Creative Destruction of New York City , urban scholar Alessandro Busa tells the story of fifteen years of shocking transformations in the city, and an updated tale of two New Yorks, circa 2017. There is a gilded city of sky-high glass towers where Wall Street managers, Hollywood celebrities and Middle-Eastern billionaires live their glamorous lives or stash their offshore cash. And there is another New York, a city where even the professional middle class is one rent hike away from eviction. Despite de Blasio's rhetoric, the trajectory since Bloomberg has been remarkably consistent. is an important chronicle of both the success of the city's elite and of efforts to counter the city's march toward a glossy and exclusionary urban landscape. It is essential reading for everyone who cares about affordable housing access and, indeed, the soul of New York City.
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