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The World in Brooklyn


en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 mar 2012
The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City, is a collection of scholarly papers which analyze demographic, social, political, and economic trends that are occurring in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, as the context, reflects global forces.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780739166703
ISBN-10: 0739166700
Pagini: 430
Dimensiuni: 155 x 231 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.84 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield

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Cuprins

Chapter 1: Introduction: The World in Brooklyn Judith N. DeSena and Timothy Shortell Chapter 2: Mapping a Changing Brooklyn, Mapping a Changing World: Gentrification and Immigration, 2000-2008 Lorna Mason, Ed Morlock and Christina Pisano Chapter 3: Forgetting Poverty in Brooklyn and the U.S. William DiFazio Chapter 4: Gentrification in Everyday Life in Brooklyn Judith N. DeSena Chapter 5: ¿Williamsburg Walks¿: Public Space and Community Events in a Gentrified Neighborhood Sara Martucci Chapter 6: The Environmental Injustice of Green Gentrification: The Case of Brooklyn¿s Prospect Park Kenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis Chapter 7: Rezoning Coney Island: A History of Decline and Revival, of Heroes and Villains at the ¿People¿s Playground Alessandro Busà Chapter 8: The Gowanus Canal: Local Politics of ¿Superfunding¿ Status Shanna Farrell Chapter 9: Striving for Sustainability on the Urban Waterfront: The Case of Newtown Creek Steve Lang Chapter 10: Riding the Bus in Brooklyn: Seeing the Spectacle of Everyday Multicultural Life Jerome Krase Chapter 11: Brooklyn and Belleville: On the Visual Semiotics of Ethnic Identity in Two Immigrant Neighborhoods Timothy Shortell Chapter 12: Constructing an Oppositional Community: Sunset Park and the Politics of Organizing Across Difference Mark Treskon Chapter 13: An Ethnography of Local Politics in a Brooklyn Caribbean Community Evrick Brown Chapter 14: The Dual Roles of Brighton Beach: A Local and Global Community Phyllis Conn Chapter 15: Hood Politics: Charter Schools, Race and Gentrification in Fort Greene Noel S. Anderson Chapter 16: Revising Canarsie: Racial Transition and Neighborhood Stability in Brooklyn Jennifer Candipan, Roberta Cordeau, Mark Peterson, Nicole Riordan, Bengisu Peker, Danielle Shallow and Gregory Smithsimon