Place You Love Is Gone Progress Hits Home

Has the future--ever more people with their houses, stores, roads, and sprawl--been wrecking your past? Every day brings evidence of dramatic change upon the landscape. It's called progress, but chances are you experience it as theft. For we are all deeply attached to the places we call home. Since the sixties, the pace of development has picked up, reaching a velocity today that signals an end to every place once held dear. Melissa Holbrook Pierson, with unalloyed insight, elucidates how it feels to lose that landscape of home. In the past twenty years, like countless towns it resembles, Akron, Ohio, has lost its singularity and much of what native-daughter Pierson loved about it. She then moves to Hoboken, New Jersey, a forgotten appendage of New York--until stockbrokers discover it. Finally, she speaks of rural areas, telling of the thousands of upstate New Yorkers displaced by city reservoirs. A unique book uniquely of our moment: This is what it feels like to lose the place you love.Pierson, Melissa Holbrook is the author of 'Place You Love Is Gone Progress Hits Home', published 2006 under ISBN 9780393057393 and ISBN 0393057399.