The invention of brownstone Brooklyn : gentrification and the search for authenticity in postwar New York

The invention of brownstone Brooklyn : gentrification and the search for authenticity in postwar New York / Suleiman Osman.

"The gentrification of Brooklyn has been one of the most striking developments in recent urban history. Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, an...

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Main Author: Osman, Suleiman
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Gentrification > New York (State) > History > 20th century.
City planning > New York (State) > History > 20th century.
Community development > New York (State) > History > 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
City planning
Community development
Gentrification
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > History > 20th century.
New York (State)
New York (State) > New York > Brooklyn
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Urban wilderness
  • Concord village
  • The middle cityscape
  • The two machines in the garden
  • The highway in the garden
  • Inventing brownstone Brooklyn
  • The neighborhood movement.

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