How East New York became a ghetto [[electronic resource] /] / Walter Thabit ; with a foreword by Frances Fox Piven

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783260003321
• Autore: Thabit Walter
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, c2003
• ISBN: 0-8147-8436-4; 0-8147-8341-4; 1-4175-8839-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8/009747/23
• Soggetti: Minorities - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions - 20th century; African Americans - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions - 20th century; Ethnic neighborhoods - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century; Inner cities - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century; Urban policy - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Social conditions 20th century; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Ethnic relations; New York (N.Y.) Social conditions 20th century; New York (N.Y.) Ethnic relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Welcome to East New York -- The population wave -- The ghettoization of East New York -- Destruction of the "target area" -- The uniformed (and other) services -- The youth of East New York -- Vest pocket planning -- Vest pocket implementation -- The model cities fiasco -- School planning -- East New York under siege -- The FHA scandals -- The community school board disaster -- Rebuilding in East New York -- The hard road to recovery -- Policing the ghetto.
• Sommario/riassunto: In response to the riots of the mid-'60s, Walter Thabit was hired to work with the community of East New York to develop a plan for low- and moderate-income public housing. In the years that followed, he ; experienced first-hand the forces that had engineered East New York's dramatic decline and that continued to work against its successful revitalization. How East New York Became a Ghetto describes the shift of East New York from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to a largely black and Puerto Rican neighborhood and shows how the resulting racially biased policies caused the deterioration o