Format:
Online-Ressource (xv, 304 p)
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Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0814782671
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0814782663
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Foreword by Frances Fox Piven; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Welcome to East New York; 2 The Population Wave; 3 The Ghettoization of East New York; 4 Destruction of the "Target Area"; 5 The Uniformed ( and Other) Services; 6 The Youth of East New York; 7 Vest Pocket Planning; 8 Vest Pocket Implementation; 9 The Model Cities Fiasco; 10 School Planning; 11 East New York under Siege; 12 The FHA Scandals; 13 The Community School Board Disaster; 14 Rebuilding in East New York; 15 The Hard Road to Recovery; 16 Policing the Ghetto; Epilogue; Notes; Index; About the Author
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814782668
Additional Edition:
Print version How East New York Became a Ghetto
Language:
English
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