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Power at the roots : gentrification, community gardens, and the Puerto Ricans of the Lower East Side / Miranda J. Martinez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martinez, Miranda J., 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gentrification--Puerto Rico.
- Gentrification.
- Community development--Puerto Rico.
- Community development.
- Social change--Puerto Rico.
- Social change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is about community gardens and the struggles to save them from gentrified redevelopment in New York City's Lower East Side. It is a vivid account of the community garden preservation movement, focusing on how working-class Puerto Rican and middle-class white gardeners waged the struggle against displacement by inserting themselves into local politics and development to change the calculus of real estate and housing policies.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1; Class Cultures in Conflict; 2; How to Tame a Neighborhood; 3; Bello Amanecer Borincano; 4; The Symbolic Lower East Side; 5; References
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-32540-6
- 1-282-92184-3
- 9786612921841
- 0-7391-4626-2
- OCLC:
- 699510432
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