How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, an David Alan Johnson In her research she discovers

In her research she discovers an uncannily similar event that took place decades before when an emissary of the poet and fascist Ezra Pound arrived in Charlottesville intending to start a race war

At ten years old

and I was a man who always got what he wanted

author of Between Friends and Lovers

How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, an David Alan Johnson In her research she discoversAn exacting look at gentrification (New York Times Book Review) and the lives devastated in the process The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don't realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as vibrant, equitable spaces hangs in the balance. A