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Colson Whitehead, The Colossus of New York: A City in 13 Parts. (Hardcover: 176 pages, Publisher: Doubleday, October 21, 2003, ISBN: 0385507941)
Richard Price, Clockers. (Paperback: 608 pages, Publisher: Perennial, July 3, 2001, ISBN: 0060934980).
Tom Shachtman, Around the Block: The Business of a Neighborhood. (Hardcover: 336 pages, Publisher: Harcourt, September 1997, ISBN: 0151000778)
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, (Paperback, 458 pages, Publisher: Vintage, 1992).
Richard Florida, Cities and the Creative Class, (Paperback, 208 pages, Publisher: Routledge, 2004)
Pete Hamill, Downtown: My Manhattan, (Paperback, 320 pages, Publisher: Little, Brown, & Company, 2004).
Beauregard, Robert. 2005. "The Texture of Property Markets: Downtown Housing and Office Conversions in New York City." Urban Studies, Vol. 42, No. 13, 2431-2445.
Lee, Jennifer. 2006. "Constructing Race and Civility in Urban America." Urban Studies, Vol. 43, Nos 5/6, 903-917.
Lees, Loretta. 2003. "Super-gentrification: The Case of Brooklyn Heights, New York City." Urban Studies, Vol. 40, No. 12, 2487-2509.
Newman, Kathe and Elvin K. Wyly. 2006. "The Right to Stay Put, Revisited: Gentrification and Resistance to Displacement in New York City." Urban Studies, Vol. 43, No. 1, 23-57.
Ryder, Andrew. 2004. "The Changing Nature of Adult Entertainment Districts: Between a Rock and a Hard Place or Going from Strength to Strength?" Urban Studies, Vol. 41, No. 9, 1659-1686.