Research Catalog

Title

From urban village to east village : the battle for New York's Lower East Side / Janet L. Abu-Lughod and others.

Publication

Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, USA : Blackwell, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Abu-Lughod, Janet L.

Description

xvi, 386 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Subjects

• New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions
• Cultural pluralism > New York (State) > New York
• Gentrification > New York (State) > New York
• East Village (New York, N.Y.) > Social conditions
• Neighborhoods > New York (State) > New York

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-374) and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Janet Abu-Lughod. 1. Welcome to the Neighborhood / Janet Abu-Lughod -- Pt. I. The Past Is Still There / Janet Abu-Lughod. 2. The Changing Economy of the Lower East Side / Jan Chien Lin. 3. The Tenement as a Built Form / Richard Plunz and Janet Abu-Lughod. 4. A History of Tompkins Square Park / Marci Reaven and Jeanne Houck. 5. Deja Vu: Replanning the Lower East Side in the 1930s / Suzanne Wasserman -- Pt. II. The Process Of Gentrification / Janet Abu-Lughod. 6. Neighborhood 'Burn-out': Puerto Ricans at the End of the Queue / Christopher Mele -- Appendix: The Other Side of the Coin: Culture in Loisaida / Mario Maffi. 7. From Disinvestment to Reinvestment: Mapping the Urban 'Frontier' in the Lower East Side / Neil Smith, Betsy Duncan and Laura Reid. 8. The Process of Gentrification in Alphabet City / Christopher Mele. 9. Public Action: New York City Policy and the Gentrification of the Lower East Side / William Sites --
• Pt. III. Contesting Community: The Issues And The Protagonists / Janet Abu-Lughod. 10. A Resident's View of Conflict on Tompkins Square Park / Diana R. Gordon. 11. The Battle for Tompkins Square Park / Janet Abu-Lughod. 12. The Residents in Tompkins Square Park / Dorine Greshof and John Dale. 13. The Squatters: A Chorus of Voices ... But Is Anyone Listening? / Andrew Van Kleunen. 14. Defending the Cross-Subsidy Plan: The Tortoise Wins Again / Janet Abu-Lughod -- Conclusions And Implications / Janet Abu-Lughod.

ISBN

• 155786523X (alk-paper)
• 1557865256 (pbk. : akl. paper)

LCCN

93031977

OCLC

• 28709247
• ocm28709247

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries