A review by wulfus
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State by Samuel Stein

2.0

This is the second book I've read in a series collaboration between Jacobin and Verso, and I think I'm starting to put together why these aren't working for me. There's a lack of good argumentation that really bugs me. Ostensibly, I should agree with some of the conclusions that Stein comes to, but both this and Four Futures are too concerned with rhetoric and anti-capitalist grandstanding, that it feels like the same points get made over and over (gentrification bad, people over profit, etc.) that any depth that could be added falls to wayside. These series feel like tweet-threads put to print and that's unfortunate.