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Selling the Lower East Side : culture, real estate, and resistance in New York City

Title
Selling the Lower East Side : culture, real estate, and resistance in New York City / Christopher Mele.
Author
Mele, Christopher.
Publication
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2000.

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Description
xvi, 361 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Globalization and community ; v. 5
Uniform Title
Globalization and community ; v. 5.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-356) and index.
Contents
1 Struggle over Space 1 -- 2 Different and Inferior: The Ghetto at the Turn of the Century 31 -- 3 Utopian Metropolis versus the Legacy of the Slum 78 -- 4 Reengineering the Ghetto: Ethnicity, Race, and Cultural Divisions in the 1950s 120 -- 5 A Brief Psychedelic Detour: Hip Urban Renewal and the Invention of the East Village 153 -- 6 Urban Malaise, Community Abandonment, and Underground Subcultures of Decay 180 -- 7 Developing the East Village: Eighties Counterculture in the Service of Urban Capital 220 -- 8 Targeting the Middle Class: Cultures of Resistance and Class Warfare 255 -- 9 Production of Desire: Urban Development and Community Resistance at the End of the Twentieth Century 281.
Call Number
IRGV 00-5862
ISBN
  • 0816631816
  • 9780816631810
  • 0816631824
  • 9780816631827
LCCN
99057397
OCLC
42823757
Author
Mele, Christopher.
Title
Selling the Lower East Side : culture, real estate, and resistance in New York City / Christopher Mele.
Imprint
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2000.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Globalization and community ; v. 5
Globalization and community ; v. 5.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-356) and index.
Research Call Number
IRGV 00-5862
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