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Renovating value : HGTV and the spectacle of gentrification /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goldman, Robert, 1949- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Home & Garden Television.
Gentrification > Social aspects.
Gentrification > Economic aspects.
Flipping (Real estate investment) > Social aspects.
Flipping (Real estate investment) > Economic aspects.
Dwellings > Maintenance and repair > Social aspects.
Dwellings > Maintenance and repair > Economic aspects.
Real property > Social aspects.
Real property > Economic aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Once upon a time in a salvage economy
  • A primer on value in the age of HGTV
  • Renovation narratives
  • A moment in the life of capital
  • Gentrification TV
  • A creative erasure
  • A promised land of instant equity
  • HGTV's value theories of labor
  • Masking the new rules of value
  • Must haves: four walls and a roof.