{"product_id":"renovating-value-robert-goldman-9781439920497","title":"Renovating Value: HGTV and the Spectacle of Gentrification","description":"\u003cp\u003eHGTV has perfected stories about creating and capturing value in the housing market. But according to Robert Goldman, this lifestyle network's beloved flagship programs, \u003ci\u003eFlip or Flop, Property Brothers, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFixer Upper-\u003c\/i\u003ewhere people revitalize modern spaces and reinvent property values-offer \"fairy tales\" in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis. The cable channel's seductive, bingeable programs may show how to find and extract value from properties, but, in fact, they insidiously ignore the realities of the real estate and mortgage markets, housing inequality, gentrification, economic insecurity, and even homelessness. In effect, HGTV has turned house flipping into a master narrative about getting ahead in America during an era of otherwise uneasy economic prospects.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHGTV pictures its insular moral economy as an alternative to a crisis-ridden neoliberal finance system that shaped landscapes of foreclosure and financial uncertainty for millions of households. \u003ci\u003eRenovating Value\u003c\/i\u003e explores the circuitry of consumer credit and debt, and a rent-gap model of gentrification that charts a path to the rehabilitation of Value. Goldman shrewdly critiques the aspirational myth of adding value to a home simply by using imagination, elbow grease, and aesthetic know-how.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Goldman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1439920494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439920497\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2022","brand":"Robert Goldman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44042536255743,"sku":"9781439920497","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6ca28190-4bb8-4f76-b3cf-b011bfe541e5.jpg?v=1684962100","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/renovating-value-robert-goldman-9781439920497","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}