Bargaining for Brooklyn
Subtitle: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: October 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780226509075
Subjects: Charities & voluntary services; Poverty; Urban communities; Urban Policy; Urban Sociology; Social Science; Sociology; Ngos (Non-Governmental Organizations); Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.; Sociology - Urban; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; Citizen participation; Community development; Community organization; New York; New York (State); Urban renewal
Description: Through ethnographic fieldwork at eight CBOs in the Brooklyn neighbourhoods of Williamsburg and Bushwick, Marwell discovers that the complex and contentious relationships that CBOs form with larger economic and political instituitions and the impact this has on the lives of the area's residents.