How East New York Became a Ghetto /

How East New York Became a Ghetto / / Walter Thabit.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Thabit, Walter,
MitwirkendeR:
Piven, Fox,
TeilnehmendeR:
Piven, Frances Fox.
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2003]
©2003
Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Welcome to East New York
  • 2 The Population Wave
  • 3 The Ghettoization of East New York
  • 4 Destruction of the “Target Area”
  • 5 The Uniformed (and Other) Services
  • 6 The Youth of East New York
  • 7 Vest Pocket Planning
  • 8 Vest Pocket Implementation
  • 9 The Model Cities Fiasco
  • 10 School Planning 11 East New York under Siege
  • 11 East New York under Siege
  • 12 The FHA Scandals
  • 13 The Community School Board Disaster
  • 14 Rebuilding in East New York
  • 15 The Hard Road to Recovery
  • 16 Policing the Ghetto
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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