...6Staging Safety in Brooklyn s Real Estate Zaire Z. Dinzey- Flores and Alexandra Demshock During the winter of 2005, the popu lar leftist Brooklyn magazine Stay Free! ran a satirical flip cover for American Gentrifier (Hearst 2005; see Figure 6.1). The spread features a staged portrait of a white...

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...Two diff er ent images of buildings offer productive touchstones for thinking about the work of real estate market analysts and the ways buildings are ma- terialized and worked on in their practice. The first is a grid from a spread- sheet. Ten columns extend down the sheet, naming diff er ent...

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