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To a significant extent, this is an expanded version of this manifesto: wiki.rechtaufstadt.net/index.php/Manifest_Not_In_Our_Name,_Marke_Hamburg! I think the discussion/interview in chapter 6 was useful; beyond that I got some Hamburg history out of it. In terms of the main subject matter (gentrification), I got a lot less out of it than I had hoped. I think it serves as a nice introduction with a specific, detailed example, but I don't think it's argumentatively solid enough to convince people. Finally, for a work claiming to take an activist perspective, there is frustratingly little political commentary or praxis in it.

All that being said, if you're looking for a fairly short overview, this might be the book for you.

This could have been a fantastic essay, but instead it's a meandering book. Overall it's a good introduction to gentrification, but the later half felt very long winded. Luckily, the structure is such that the initial chapter contains a central thesis which is then expanded upon. Read that and you've kind of got the gist.

Nothing much new so far - though some bits indicate the tension between ecologically desirable change to reduce car dependency and potential gentrifying effects (some would say that is an inevitable consequence, but I'm holding out hope)

-- by the way, it's weird to write a comment in English about a German book, but I haven't figured out how to change the language of a comment yet (#Tusky has a setting for this, but I may just not have discovered this feature so far)