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Book Reviews THERE GOES THE ‘HOOD.VIEWS OF GENTRIFICATION FROM THE GROUND UP, by Lance Free- man. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006. ISBN 1-59213-436-X (hardback); ISBN 1-59213-437-8 (paper); 235 pp. Reviewed by Neil Smith Center for Place, Culture and Politics, City University of New York Warning. This book is further from view than it seems from the title. Lance Freeman splashed into view in 2004 with a co-edited article that purported to show that gentrification was a good thing, the locals actually liked it, and academics should get with the program. In fact, academics demurred, roundly panning the methodology and disputing the findings. This book suggests that the author either did not read the critiques or is happily unaffected by them. There Goes the ‘Hood interviews a few people in two neighborhoods of New York City and concludes, with obligatory academic nods to diversity and complexity, that, all things considered, gentrification, on balance, is a good thing. It may just require some pol- icy fine-tuning to smooth off the rough edges. The neighborhoods are Clinton Hill in Brooklyn and Harlem in northern Manhattan, and the author’s project is to tackle the “negative sentiments,” “complaints,” and “pejorative views” of gentrification (p.
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