"Gentrification used to be a term associated with dense urban neighborhoods--but not anymore. Remote work and digitally enabled Zoom towns have put small communities in the Hudson Valley squarely in the crosshairs. In this engaging work, Richard Ocejo examines the economic contradictions and cultural challenges that this escalating process brings." --Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class " Sixty Miles Upriver is a richly insightful account of how a small city experiencing new patterns of gentrification has become the center of complex negotiations over place, politics, discourse, and culture. This book will have a profound impact on the way we write and think about gentrification, race, and urbanism." --Brandi Thompson Summers, author of Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City "Ocejo illuminates the conflicts in a municipality grappling with issues of poverty and diversity, and a desire to stimulate neighborhood revitalization without advancing racial inequality. A nuanced account of a neglected American narrative, this is a must-read for anyone who wants to know what happens when a small city simultaneously pursues gentrification and equitable development." --Derek S.

Hyra, author of Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City "A welcome addition to the literature on gentrification, Sixty Miles Upriver sheds light on the moral calculus that gentrifiers rely on as they transform the places they seek out and value. This engaging and timely book is a testament to the importance of studying smaller places, and, more specifically, of charting how gentrification unfolds across different scales, not just in the big metropolises on which most research focuses." --Japonica Brown-Saracino, Boston University.