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 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 of this once flourishing area.A clear-sighted, unfl…
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Weitere Autoren: Piven, Frances Fox (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-8147-8267-5
- EAN: 9780814782675
- Produktnummer: 1625132
- Verlag: New York Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.7 cm x D2.0 cm 408 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Gewicht: 408
Über den Autor
Walter Thabit has 35 years of experience in housing, renewal, community planning, city planning, and anti-poverty projects. He lives in New York City.
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