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xi acknowledgments It is only after producing a work such as this that one fully realizes how misconceived the notion of sole authorship is. The ultimate responsibility for the arguments , along with any errors or misconceptions, in this book is mine alone. Nevertheless, it would have been impossible to complete this work without the support and aid of many dozens of people. First and foremost, I wish to thank the informants who granted me their time, insight, honesty, and openness, particularly Anthony Borelli, Anna Hayes Levin, John Raskin, and a number of Department of City Planning employees who will go unnamed. Innumerable academic colleagues helped shape this book. From our first breakfast meeting at Aggie’s, Neil Smith has been unfailingly helpful, kind, and supportive. He has been indispensable to this work’s evolution from dissertation proposal to final product. Jeff Maskovsky has served as advocate, mentor, intellectual collaborator, friend, and (briefly) editor —I thank him for all his help. I am in deep debt to David Harvey, whose work and advice are central to this book and to my own intellectual development. I want to thank Ida Susser for both her guidance and support and her work to legitimize the anthropological study of North America and North American cities. Other current and former faculty members of the Anthropology Program of the City University of New York Graduate Center deserve my thanks, especially Michael Blim, Louise Lennihan, Jane Schneider, Cindi Katz, and Don Robotham. I am also grateful for my graduate school compatriots at the gc, including Susan Falls, Mary Taylor, Nathan Woods, Erin Martineau, Roberto Abadie, Eliza Darling, and David Vine. Others who have contributed to this work in various ways include Ellen DeRiso, Miriam Greenberg, William Sites, Anders Lund Hansen, Gary McDonogh, Marina Peterson, Arlene Dávila, Hillary Cunningham, John Clarke, Sandi Morgen, Brett Williams, Peter Wissoker, Peter Marcuse, Lionel McIntyre, and Leslie McCall. My former colleagues at the University of Toledo have my gratitude for providing a welcoming environment in which I could convert this work from dissertation to book. Barbara Chesney was everything one could want in a xii • acknowledgments first chair. I also thank Willie McKether, Patricia Case, Melissa Gregory, Sam Nelson, Ben Pryor, and Ed Lingan for their collegiality and friendship. Judy Haas and Jonas Gamso also deserve my gratitude. Derek Krissoff of the University of Georgia Press, whose quick and supportive response made sure this book’s period of homelessness was mercifully brief, has been an excellent editor. Also deserving of my thanks for their responsiveness , diligence, and professionalism are other Press staff, the editors and board members of the Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation series, and Kay Kodner. Thanks to the anonymous reviewers of this book, who provided such insightful and helpful comments, critiques, and suggestions. Portions of chapter 9 appeared in Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development in 2006 (35:4). Thanks to Jack Rollwagen for permission to republish it here. Finally, I want to thank my family and friends for their love and support. My friendships with David Auburn, Griffin Hansbury, Frank Garritano, Michele Bessey, Kevin Mialky, and T. R. Muth have all in their own ways made this book possible. I owe a profound debt to my parents, Sarah and Ed Brash, for, among other things, their unfailing encouragement; imbuing me with intellectual curiosity, a love of reading, an attention to detail, and a sense of justice ; and—more practically—their babysitting. My mother- and father-in-law, Kathryn Widmer and Peter Ressler Sr., receive my deep thanks for all the support they have provided. I want to also acknowledge Kate Brash, Rachel Brash, Benet O’Reilly, Alec MacGillis, Elise Brown, Jeremy Kagan, and Jonathan Kagan for their support and encouragement. I am also deeply grateful to my two grandmothers, Jane Bennett and Sally Miller Brash, who both passed away while I was completing this book, for all they gave me. My deepest thanks of all go to my wonderful wife and children. It is they who lived with the day-to-day trials of writing this book. To my three irrepressible children, Olivia, Leo, and Sam, I owe thanks for providing joy, love, and a reminder of what is important. And I dedicate this book to Kiry, whose love, humor, companionship, partnership, patience, generosity, and kindness during the long and arduous process of writing this book made my life full. Thanks, babe. [3.17.150.163] Project MUSE (2024-04-16 08...

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