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How East New York became a ghetto /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2003]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781417588398 141758839X 9780814782668 0814782663 9780814783412 0814783414 0814784364 9780814784365 |