When I first started this book I thought my review was going to be something like - provides a clear explanation of many issues with suburban development but conveniently ignores racism. Then I got to the part where they talk about solutions and actually prescribe things like broken windows policing, forced labor, charter schools... This book is what happens when professional/managerial class white people think the world is created by visionaries and that they are amongst them. I cannot in good conscience recommend reading this book, buy I will say that I now have a much clearer understanding of how gentrification played out in DC and whose playbook they are using.