The roots of urban renaissance : gentrification and the struggle over Harlem / Brian D. Goldstein ; foreword by Thomas J. Sugrue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldstein, Brian D., 1982- author.

Contributor:

Sugrue, Thomas J., 1962- Author of introduction, etc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Gentrification.

Gentrification--New York (State)--New York--21st century.

Community development--New York (State)--New York.

Community development.

Neighborhood leaders--New York (State)--New York.

Neighborhood leaders.

Community organization--New York (State)--New York.

Community organization.

African American neighborhoods--New York (State)--New York--History.

African American neighborhoods.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--History.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.).

Physical Description:

425 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Edition:

Expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"With its gleaming shopping centers and refurbished row houses, today's Harlem bears little resemblance to the neighborhood of the midcentury urban crisis. Brian Goldstein traces Harlem's Second Renaissance to a surprising source: the radical social movements of the 1960s that resisted city officials and fought to give Harlemites control of their own destiny. Young Harlem activists, inspired by the civil rights movement, envisioned a Harlem built by and for its low-income, predominantly African American population. In the succeeding decades, however, the community-based organizations they founded came to pursue a very different goal: a neighborhood with national retailers and increasingly affluent residents. The Roots of Urban Renaissance demonstrates that gentrification was not imposed on an unwitting community by unscrupulous developers or opportunistic outsiders. Rather, it grew from the neighborhood's grassroots, producing a legacy that benefited some longtime residents and threatened others."--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction

Reforming renewal

Black utopia

Own a piece of the block

The urban homestead in the age of fiscal crisis

Managing change

Making markets uptown

Conclusion : between the two Harlems.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-361) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780691234755

0691234752

OCLC:

1368275771