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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791592803321

Autore

Osman Suleiman

Titolo

The invention of brownstone Brooklyn [[electronic resource] ] : gentrification and the search for authenticity in postwar New York / / Suleiman Osman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-19-983204-8

1-282-97726-1

9786612977268

0-19-983077-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (359 p.)

Disciplina

307.3/4160974723

Soggetti

Gentrification - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century

City planning - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century

Community development - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) History 20th century

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

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

Urban wilderness -- Concord village -- The middle cityscape -- The two machines in the garden -- The highway in the garden -- Inventing brownstone Brooklyn -- The neighborhood movement.

Sommario/riassunto

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 1940's and 1950's, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980's had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, and beautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses. In The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, Suleiman Osman offers a groundbreaking history of this unexpected transformation. Challenging the conventional wisdom that New York City's renaissance started in the 1990's, Osman locates the origins of gentrification