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The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn. Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York.
Suleiman Osman
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Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 474.
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 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s 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 1990s, Osman locates the origins of gentrification in Brooklyn in the cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. Gentrification began as ... Read more
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 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s 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 1990s, Osman locates the origins of gentrification in Brooklyn in the cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. Gentrification began as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199930340
SKU
V9780199930340
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About Suleiman Osman
Suleiman Osman is Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University. He grew up in Brooklyn's Park Slope and now lives in Washington, D.C.
Reviews for The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn. Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York.
[Osman] has told the story with great insight and drama through an eclectic and well-selected set of historical sources and a felicitous writerly prose.
Robert Self, American Historical Review
Robert Self, American Historical Review