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

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Osman, Suleiman.

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

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x, 348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction ---- 1. Urban wilderness -- 2. Concord village -- 3. The middle cityscape of Brooklyn Heights -- 4. The two machines in the garden -- 5. The highway in the garden and the literature of gentrification -- 6. Inventing Brownstone Brooklyn -- 7. The neighborhood movement ---- Conclusion: Brownstone Brooklyn invented.

Summary:

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 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s 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 1990s, Osman locates the origins of gentrification in Brooklyn in the cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. Gentrification began as a grassroots movement led by young and idealistic white college graduates searching for "authenticity" and life outside the burgeoning suburbs. Where postwar city leaders championed slum clearance and modern architecture, "brownstoners" (as they called themselves) fought for a new romantic urban ideal that celebrated historic buildings, industrial lofts and traditional ethnic neighborhoods as a refuge from an increasingly technocratic society. -- Publisher description.

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ISBN:

9780195387315 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0195387317 (hbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

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.
Embourgeoisement (Urbanisme) New York (État) New York Histoire 20e siècle.
City planning.
Community development.
Gentrification.
Gentrifizierung
Geschichte
Stadtentwicklung
Städtebau.
Gemeinwesenarbeit.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) History 20th century.
New York (State) New York.
New York (State) New York Brooklyn.
Brooklyn, NY
New York-Brooklyn.
Brooklyn (N.Y.)

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History.

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Location: Library main 275454
Call No.: BIB 209713
Status: Available

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