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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osman, Suleiman.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gentrification--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Gentrification.

City planning--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

City planning.

Community development--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Community development.

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

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

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 1940's and 1950's, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980's 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 1990's, Osman locates the origins of gentrification

Contents:

Urban wilderness

Concord village

The middle cityscape

The two machines in the garden

The highway in the garden

Inventing brownstone Brooklyn

The neighborhood movement.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-983204-8

1-282-97726-1

9786612977268

0-19-983077-0

OCLC:

704389987