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How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, an Bill Watterson In the 1700s and 1800sAn 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