https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/quicken-loans-dan-gilbert-detroit-2018-8<\/a>) he has invested $5.6 billion into the city and accounts for 17,000 jobs. The issue that Moskowitz highlights is that cities are used in order to generate capital, ignoring the culture and community. These billions of dollars that were invested by Gilbert serve to generate returns\/income for him, not the city. Although some news articles praise him for bringing in this money, it is important to remember who is really benefiting from this (and who isn\u2019t).<\/p>\n\n\n\n A quote that grabbed my attention from the book was, \u201cIt\u2019s hard to report on a void, on something that\u2019s now missing…but at the end of the day, that’s what gentrification is: a void in the neighborhood, in a city, and a culture.\u201d This absence of culture and aesthetic is discussed in the book, and it\u2019s also something that I have noticed in the many new buildings and businesses in gentrified cities. They are homogenized, devoid of character or individuality, and demonstrative of the void of culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have spent some time in all 4 cities (New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, and New York) and have many relatives who live in these cities or used to live in the cities. My grandpa lived and worked in San Francisco for most of his life, but was slowly pushed out and eventually had to move to Michigan to be able to afford to retire. He loved the city, but the price of his rent skyrocketed while his salary remained the same. His story closely parallels some of the other narratives from How to Kill a City.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hi all, I have found that How to Kill a City has really transformed my understanding of the processes of gentrification and all of the little things that happen \u2018behind the scenes\u2019 before a city is able to be gentrified. 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