Brooklyn Tides : : The Fall and Rise of a Global Borough / / Mark J. Noonan, Benjamin Heim Shepard.
Brooklyn has all the features of a "global borough": It is a base of immigrant labor and ethnically diverse communities, of social and cultural capital, of global transportation, cultural production, and policy innovation. At once a model of sustainable urbanization and overdevelopment, th...
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Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Urban Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue. Brooklyn Is Expanding: Introductory Notes on a Global Borough
- Chapter one. Global Brooklyn: A Prehistory
- Chapter two. Chants Undemocratic
- Chapter three. Community, Migration, Displacement
- Chapter four. Toxicity
- Chapter five. Fighting Police Brutality in Global Brooklyn: From Ferguson to NYC
- Chapter six. The World City and the Space of Neighborhoods: The Battle of Brooklyn
- Chapter seven. Of Tempests and Storms: Super-Storm Sandy and Climate Chaos in Global Brooklyn
- Chapter eight. Community Gardening, Creative Activism, and the Struggle for Open Space
- Chapter nine. Rethinking Jay Street and the Downtown the City Forgot: Lost Between Double-parked Cars and Ugly Buildings
- Epilogue. The Global Street
- Endnotes
- The Authors