Title & Author:

Dual city : restructuring New York / edited by John Hull Mollenkopf and Manuel Castells.

Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©1991.

Description:

xiv, 477 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

The City in the twenty-first century

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-439) and indexes.
The decline and rise of the New York economy / Matthew Drennan -- The changing ethnic/racial division of labor / Thomas Bailey, Roger Waldinger -- The informal economy / Saskia Sassen -- The public sector / Charles Brecher, Raymond Horton -- The geography of employment and residence in New York since 1950 / Richard Harris -- Upper professionals : a high command of commerce, culture, and civic regulation / Steven Brint -- Women clerical workers / Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Stephen R. Duncombe -- The separation of mothers and children / Ida Susser -- Crime and the social fabric / Mercer Sullivan -- The structure of the media / Mitchell Moss, Sarah Ludwig -- Patterns of neighborhood change / Frank DeGiovanni, Lorraine Minnite -- The changing character of community politics in New York City : 1968-1988 / Susan Fainstein, Norman Fainstein -- Political inequality / John Mollenkopf -- Poles apart : urban restructuring in New York and Los Angeles / Edward Soja -- A dual to New York? London in the 1980s / Ian Gordon, Michael Harloe -- Is New York a dual city? / Manuel Castells, John Mollenkopf.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Have the last two decades produced a New York composed of two separate and unequal cities? As the contributors to Dual City reveal, the complexity of inequality in New York defies simple distinctions between black and white, the Yuppies and the homeless. The city's changing economic structure has intersected with an increasingly diversified population, providing upward mobility for some groups while isolating others. As race, gender, ethnicity, and class become ever more critical components of the postindustrial city, the New York experience illuminates not just one great city, or indeed all large cities, but the forces affecting most of the globe. -- Amazon.com.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

087154606X
9780871546067

Subject:

Economic history.
Social conditions
Sociaal-economische situatie.
Soziale Situation
Sozialer Wandel
Wirtschaft
Aufsatzsammlung
New York (N.Y.) Economic conditions.
New York (N.Y.) Social conditions.
New York (N.Y.) Conditions économiques.
New York (N.Y.) Conditions sociales.
New York (State) New York.
New York, NY
New York (N.Y.)

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Mollenkopf, John H., 1946-
Castells, Manuel, 1942-
City in the twenty-first century book series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 72867
Call No.: ID:92-B1410
Status: Available