University of Chicago Press / November 2019 / 320 pp. / $30
“A revelation, and one of the very best books on cities and urbanism I’ve read in some time.”
Richard Florida, author of The New Urban Crisis
“Schuerman’s analysis is refreshingly free of nostalgia or ideology; his reporting is careful and sharp.”
Eric Klinenberg, author of Palaces for the People
“The wreckage of both gentrification and solutions to the gentrification problem litter every page.”
Times Higher Education
“The author humanizes the community transformations so that readers who have never set foot in those locales—and even those who know them personally—fully comprehend the dynamics involved.”
Kirkus Reviews
“Newcomers approaches a thorny and politically charged topic with nuance, resulting in an insightful, thorough portrait of seventy years of gentrification.”
Foreword Reviews
“…provocative and important, with the potential to reshape how we think about a polarizing topic.”
Gary Rivlin, author of Katrina: After the Flood
“Gentrification has met its perfect biographer.”
Elvin Wyly, University of British Columbia
