The new Brooklyn
Subtitle: what it takes to bring a city back
By: Kay S. Hymowitz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781442266575
Subjects: Urban renewal; Economic conditions; Urban policy; Community development; Social conditions; History
Description: viii, 199 pages ; 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-187) and index.
Table of contents: title: The old Brooklyn, part one; title: The old Brooklyn, part two; title: Park Slope : the new Brooklyn takes shape; title: Haute hippie Williamsburg; title: The Brooklyn Navy Yard : new Brooklyn's new manufacturing; title: Bedford-Stuyvesant : a ghetto in transition; title: or is gentrification racist?; title: Brownsville : the permanent ghetto; title: Sunset Park : Chinese immigrants in blue sky Brooklyn; title: Canarsie : West Indians in the promised borough; title: Recovering cities.