Books

• The Diaspora of Belonging: Gentrification, Systems of Oppression, and Why Our Cities Are Out of Place by Jay Sharma
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jen Jacobs
• Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough by Prithi Kanakamedala
• How Newark Became Newark: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of an American City by Brad R. Tuttle

Redlining in the U.S.

• A brief history of redlining (NYC.gov, 2021)
• The Lasting Legacy Of Redlining (Five Thirty Eight, 2022)
• 50 years after being outlawed, redlining still drives neighborhood health inequities (Berkley Public Health, 2023)
• Federal Reserve History: Redlining (Federal Reserve History, 2023)

Redlining in NYC

• NYPL’s Redlining Guide
• From Redlining to Predatory Lending: A Secret Economic History of Brooklyn (Brownstoner, 2016)

Urban Renewal

• How Lincoln Center Was Built (The New York Times, 2017)
• Robert Moses: In the Name of Urban Renewal (PBS)
• Some of the world’s most fascinating neighbourhoods from Chicago to Shanghai have been razed by regeneration – and it’s not just the buildings that go (The Guardian, 2019)

Primary Sources

• 1938 Underwriting Manual
• Location and Extent of Racial Colonies. Ohman Map Co. Inc. ca. 1920. (Brooklyn Historical Socierty)