Autor(en)

Osman, Suleiman:

Verlag / Jahr

OXFORD UNIV PRESS., 09.03.2011.

Format / Einband

23,9 x 3,3 x 16,3 cm, Originalhardcover mit Schutzumschlag / with dust jacket. X, 348 Seiten / p.

Sprache

Englisch

Gewicht

ca. 1778 g

ISBN

0195387317

EAN

9780195387315

Bestell-Nr

1185192

Bemerkungen

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - 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. Osman examines the emergence of a 'slow-growth* progressrre coahbon as brownstoners joined with poorer residents to battle city planners and local machine politicians. But as brownstoners migrated into poorer areas, race and class tensions emerged, and by the 1980s, as newspapers parodied yuppies and anti-gentrification activists marched through increasingly expensive neighborhoods, brownstoners debated whether their search for authenticity had been a success or failure. -- The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn deftly mixes architectural, cultural, and political history in this eye-opening perspective on the post-industrial city. ISBN 9780195387315

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