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The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem
Brian D. Goldstein
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Description for The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem
Hardback. In charting the growth of gleaming shopping centers and refurbished brownstones in Harlem, Brian Goldstein shows that gentrification was not imposed on an unwitting community by opportunistic developers or outsiders. It grew from the neighborhood's grassroots, producing a legacy that benefited some longtime residents and threatened others. Num Pages: 356 pages, 42 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJK; HBTB; JFSG; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 166 x 35. Weight in Grams: 716.
Displaying gleaming new shopping centers and refurbished row houses, Harlem today bears little resemblance to the neighborhood of the midcentury urban crisis. Brian Goldstein traces Harlem's widely noted Second Renaissance to a surprising source: the radical 1960s social movements that resisted city officials and fought to give Harlemites control of their own destiny. In the post-World War II era, large-scale government-backed redevelopment drove the economic and physical transformation of urban neighborhoods. But in the 1960s, young Harlem activists inspired by the civil rights movement recognized urban renewal as one more example of a power structure ... Read more
Displaying gleaming new shopping centers and refurbished row houses, Harlem today bears little resemblance to the neighborhood of the midcentury urban crisis. Brian Goldstein traces Harlem's widely noted Second Renaissance to a surprising source: the radical 1960s social movements that resisted city officials and fought to give Harlemites control of their own destiny. In the post-World War II era, large-scale government-backed redevelopment drove the economic and physical transformation of urban neighborhoods. But in the 1960s, young Harlem activists inspired by the civil rights movement recognized urban renewal as one more example of a power structure ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
716g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674971509
SKU
V9780674971509
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About Brian D. Goldstein
Brian D. Goldstein, an urban and architectural historian, is Assistant Professor of Art History at Swarthmore College.
Reviews for The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem
[A] meticulously researched account of Harlemites' efforts to exercise control over their area since the urban crisis of the 1960s... Full of telling details. [This] is not a popular history but a work of rigorous scholarship.
(05/25/2018) Intensely detailed, this important historical analysis reads not like a play-by-play account but rather like a drama, due to the author's strong sense ... Read more
(05/25/2018) Intensely detailed, this important historical analysis reads not like a play-by-play account but rather like a drama, due to the author's strong sense ... Read more