Ed Koch and the rebuilding of New York City /

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Exploring Koch's legacy through personal and mayoral papers, authorized interviews, and oral histories, this volume plots a history of New York City through two rarely studied but crucial decades, the bankruptcy of the 1970s and the recovery and crash of the 1980s.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Soffer, Jonathan M., 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2010.
Colección:Columbia history of urban life.
Temas:
Koch, Ed, > 1924-2013.
Koch, Ed, > 1924-2013
Since 1900
Mayors > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Mayors
Politics and government
Social conditions
Social policy
New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > 1951-
New York (N.Y.) > Social policy.
New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Administration > 1951-
New York (State) > New York
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Struggling to be middle class: Ed Koch's early life
  • "It takes a village" (1949-1958)
  • "Rhymes with notch" (1959-1964)
  • "He's the hottest thing they've got"
  • "A rebel with reason"
  • "Koch's corridor" (1969-1976)
  • "A liberal with sanity:" Koch as the anti-Bella
  • "One-seventh of a mayor" (1973-76)
  • The 1977 mayoral election
  • Mayor!: the dynamics of dynamism (1978-81)
  • The politics of race and party
  • Shakeup (1979-1980)
  • Controlled fusion: or, to Koch or not to Koch (1980-1981)
  • Governor Koch? (1982-83)
  • Larger than life (1984-1985)
  • New spatial order: gentrification, the parks, Times Square
  • Homelessness
  • The Koch housing plan (1986-1989)
  • Aids
  • Crime and police issues (1978-1984)
  • Crime and police issues (1984-1989)
  • Don't follow county leaders and watch your parking meters
  • Koch's endgame (1988-89)
  • Epilogue.

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