Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York

Name: Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York
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ISBN: 9780199930340

ISBN-10: 0199930341

ISBN-13: 9780199930340

Edition: 2012

Authors: Suleiman Osman

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The gentrification of Brooklyn has been one of the most striking developments in recent urban history. Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, andbeautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses.In The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, Suleiman Osman offers a groundbreaking history of this unexpected transformation. Challenging the conventional wisdom that New York City's renaissance started in the 1990s, Osman locates the origins of gentrification in Brooklyn in the cultural upheavals ofthe 1960s and 1970s. Gentrification began as a grassroots…

Book details

List price: $40.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/12/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.25" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Suleiman Osman is Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University. He grew up in Brooklyn's Park Slope and now lives in Washington, D.C.



Introduction



Urban Wilderness



Concord Village



The Middle Cityscape



The Two Machines in the Garden



The Highway in the Garden



Inventing Brownstone Brooklyn



The Neighborhood Movement


Conclusion: Brownstone Brooklyn Invented


Notes


Bibliography


Index