Freedomland : Co-op City and the Story of New York
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| Autore: |
Sammartino Annemarie H
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| Titolo: |
Freedomland : Co-op City and the Story of New York
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| Pubblicazione: | Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2022 |
| ©2022 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (317 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 334/.109747275 |
| Soggetto topico: | Housing, Cooperative |
| Housing, Cooperative - New York (State) - Bronx County - History - 20th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | New York (State) Bronx County |
| Soggetto non controllato: | new york city rent strike, middle-class housing development, united housing foundation, cooperative housing new York, 1970’s Bronx, NYC affordable housing, NYC housing history |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: Co-op City and the story of New York -- "The world's greatest housing cooperative": building a new cooperative, 1965-1968 -- "Everyone was seeking a Utopia": building a community, 1969-1973 -- "We remember picket lines": cooperator militancy, 1970-1974 -- "No way, we won't pay": the rent strike years, 1975-1976 -- "We inherited a mess!": after the rent strike, 1977-1981 -- "Co-op City is the Bronx": a middle-class community, 1982-1993 -- "The biggest housing bargain in town": achieving financial stability, 1981-1993 -- Epilogue: Freedomland today. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "Tells the story of the 35 towers and 236 townhouses of Co-op City in the Bronx from the perspective of the men and women who dreamed it and built it, and of the ordinary people who lived there"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Freedomland |
| ISBN: | 1-5017-1645-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910795625403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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