When the City Becomes Content

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Title painting: Third Avenue (with Reflection) III (2005) by Yvonne Jacquette

Sources::

Robert Caro, The Power Broker, Knopf (1974).

Kyle Chayka, “Making Memes For The Global ‘Oat Milk Elite’” The New Yorker (2024).

Emily Douglas, “‘Intellectual Property: Sarah Schulman’s “The Gentrification of the Mind” LA Review of Books (2012).

Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment, Penguin Random House (2021).

Adam Gopnik, “Jane Jacobs’s Street Smarts,” The New Yorker (2016).

Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Random House (1961).

Josh Kline, “New York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art” October (2026).

Robert Mariani, “American Diner Gothic,” The New Atlantis (2026).

Sarah Schulman, The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, University of California Press (2012). 

Fred Siegel, “Trading Places,” The New York Times (2012). 

Willy Staley, “When Gentrification Isn’t About Housing,” The New York Times (2018). 

Colleen Walsh, “Urban Planning and Social Justice, Examining the life and career of Ed Logue,” The Harvard Gazette (2019).