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

• Autore: Osman Suleiman
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (359 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.3/4160974723
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) History 20th century; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The invention of brownstone Brooklyn
• ISBN: 0-19-983204-8; 1-282-97726-1; 9786612977268; 0-19-983077-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823558003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II