How East New York became a ghetto /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thabit, Walter (Author)
Other Authors: Piven, Frances Fox (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2003]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Minorities > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions > 20th century.
Ethnic neighborhoods > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Inner cities > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Urban policy > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Minorités > New York (État) > New York > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > New York (État) > New York > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Quartiers ethniques > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Politique urbaine > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Ethnic neighborhoods.
Ethnic relations.
Inner cities.
Minorities > Social conditions.
Social conditions
Urban policy.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Ethnic relations.
New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York > Brooklyn.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Welcome to East New York
  • Population wave
  • Ghettoization of East New York
  • Destruction of the "target area"
  • Uniformed (and other) services
  • Youth of East New York
  • Vest pocket planning
  • Vest pocket implementation
  • Model cities fiasco
  • School planning
  • East New York under siege
  • FHA scandals
  • Community school board disaster
  • Rebuilding in East New York
  • Hard road to recovery
  • Policing the ghetto.

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