How East New York bename a ghetto / Walter Thabit ; with a foreword by Frances Fox Piven.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thabit, Walter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions--20th century.

Minorities.

African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions--20th century.

African Americans.

Ethnic neighborhoods--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Ethnic neighborhoods.

Inner cities--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Inner cities.

Urban policy--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Urban policy.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Ethnic relations.

New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--20th century.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In response to the riots of the mid-'60s, Walter Thabit was hired to work with the community of East New York to develop a plan for low- and moderate-income public housing. In the years that followed, he experienced first-hand the forces that had engineered East New York's dramatic decline and that continued to work against its successful revitalization. How East New York Became a Ghetto describes the shift of East New York from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to a largely black and Puerto Rican neighborhood and shows how the resulting racially biased policies caused the deterioration o

Contents:

Welcome to East New York

The population wave

The ghettoization of East New York

Destruction of the "target area"

The uniformed (and other) services

The youth of East New York

Vest pocket planning

Vest pocket implementation

The model cities fiasco

School planning

East New York under siege

The FHA scandals

The community school board disaster

Rebuilding in East New York

The hard road to recovery

Policing the ghetto.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814784365

0814784364

9780814783412

0814783414

9781417588398

141758839X

OCLC:

779828302