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Overview
This book exposes the meeting of art and real estate markets, the happy meeting between artists' demand for housing and city officials and homeowners who wanted to 'upgrade' their neighborhoods by private market means--and how those artists were used and abandoned by real estate developers and investors who were banking on rising property values."An outstanding example of the new interdisciplinary direction in the study of urban communities."--Contemporary Sociology
Synopsis
This book exposes the meeting of art and real estate markets, the happy meeting between artists' demand for housing and city officials and homeowners who wanted to 'upgrade' their neighborhoods by private market means--and how those artists were used and abandoned by real estate developers and investors who were banking on rising property values.
Book Details
Published
February 1, 1989
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pages
249
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780813513898