Freedomland : Co-op City and the story of New York /
"Tells the story of the 35 towers and 236 townhouses of Co-op City in the Bronx from the perspective of the men and women who dreamed it and built it, and of the ordinary people who lived there"--
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
2022.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Co-op City and the story of New York
- "The world's greatest housing cooperative": building a new cooperative, 1965-1968
- "Everyone was seeking a Utopia": building a community, 1969-1973
- "We remember picket lines": cooperator militancy, 1970-1974
- "No way, we won't pay": the rent strike years, 1975-1976
- "We inherited a mess!": after the rent strike, 1977-1981
- "Co-op City is the Bronx": a middle-class community, 1982-1993
- "The biggest housing bargain in town": achieving financial stability, 1981-1993
- Epilogue: Freedomland today.