Selling the Lower East Side : culture, real estate, and resistance in New York City / Christopher Mele.

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Mele, Christopher.

Title & Author:

Selling the Lower East Side : culture, real estate, and resistance in New York City / Christopher Mele.

Publication:

Description:

xvi, 361 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Globalization and community ; v. 5

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-356) and index.
1 Struggle over Space 1 -- 2 Different and Inferior: The Ghetto at the Turn of the Century 31 -- 3 Utopian Metropolis versus the Legacy of the Slum 78 -- 4 Reengineering the Ghetto: Ethnicity, Race, and Cultural Divisions in the 1950s 120 -- 5 A Brief Psychedelic Detour: Hip Urban Renewal and the Invention of the East Village 153 -- 6 Urban Malaise, Community Abandonment, and Underground Subcultures of Decay 180 -- 7 Developing the East Village: Eighties Counterculture in the Service of Urban Capital 220 -- 8 Targeting the Middle Class: Cultures of Resistance and Class Warfare 255 -- 9 Production of Desire: Urban Development and Community Resistance at the End of the Twentieth Century 281.

ISBN:

0816631816 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816631810 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816631824 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780816631827 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Urban renewal New York (State) New York.
Rénovation urbaine New York (État) New York.
Economic history.
Social conditions
Urban renewal.
Soziale Situation
Sozialer Wandel
Real property New York (State) New York.
Villes Rénovation États-Unis New York (N.Y.)
Embourgeoisement (urbanisme) États-Unis New York (N.Y.)
Marketing territorial États-Unis New York (N.Y.)
Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) Social conditions.
Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) Economic conditions.
New York (State) New York.
New York (State) New York Lower East Side.
New York- Lower East Side
New York (N.Y.) Quartier de Lower East Side Conditions sociales.
New York (N.Y.) Quartier de Lower East Side Conditions économiques.

Added entries:

Globalization and community ; v. 5.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 211694
Call No.: HT177.N5 M4 2000
Status: Available

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