Hell's Kitchen and the Battle for Urban Space : Class Struggle and Progressive Reform in New York City, 1894-1914 /

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Hell's Kitchen is among Manhattan's most storied and studied neighborhoods. A working-class district situated next to the West Side's middle- and upper-class residential districts, it has long attracted the focus of artists and urban planners, writers and reformers. Now, Joseph Varga...

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Main Author: Varga, Joseph J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Monthly Review Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social structure.
Social classes.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Politics and government
City planning > Social aspects.
City planning > Political aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Progressisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Classes sociales > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
Structure sociale > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
Progressivism (United States politics) > History.
Social classes > New York (State) > New York > History.
Social structure > New York (State) > New York > History.
City planning > Political aspects > New York (State) > New York.
City planning > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York > Hell's Kitchen.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (N.Y.) > Administration > 1898-1951.
New York (N.Y.) > Histoire > 1898-1951.
New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > 1898-1951.
New York (N.Y.) > History > 1898-1951.
Hell's Kitchen (New York, N.Y.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Death in the Kitchen; CHAPTER 1: SPACE AS HISTORY; Hell's Kitchen; Uneven Geographic Development; The Production of Space; Implications; CHAPTER 2: RESTRUCTURING PROGRESSIVES; Progressive Vision and Visibility; Visibility and Occlusion; Representational Space and Performance; CHAPTER 3: WHEN HELL FROZE OVER; Policing the Boundaries; CHAPTER 4: HOUSING AND VISIBLE SPACES; Imagined Spatial Communities; Kitchen Space; CHAPTER 5: SPATIAL ECONOMIES; Working in the City; The Laboring Body; CHAPTER 6: HELL, DEATH, AND URBAN POLITICS.
  • The Restructured Spatial ContainerSelf-Perception and Citizenship; Conclusion: The Spatial Production of Desire; The Future of Cities; Bibliography; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z.

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