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]
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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