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Between Ocean and City

Name: Between Ocean and City
Brand: Columbia University Press
SKU: 9780231128483
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The Transformation of Rockaway, New York

Autor: Lawrence Kaplan, Carol P. Kaplan

Jazyk:

Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Columbia University Press

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

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Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in south Queens with a small permanent population....

Informace o knize

Autor

Lawrence Kaplan, Carol P. Kaplan

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2003

Stránek

264

EAN

9780231128483

ISBN

0231128487

Enbook ID

04558001

Vydavatel

Columbia University Press

Hmotnost

467

Rozměry

155 x 240 x 19

Kompletní popis

Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in south Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after World War II, large parts of this narrow peninsula between the ocean and the bay became some of New York City's worst slums. A historian who grew up in the community and his wife, a social worker, together present an illuminating account of this transformation, exploring issues of race, class, and social policy and offering a significant revision of the larger story of New York City's development. In particular, the authors qualify some of the negative assessments of Robert Moses, suggesting that the "Power Broker" attempted for many positive initiatives for Rockaway. Based on extensive archival research and hundreds of hours of interviews with residents, urban specialists, and government officials past and present, Between Ocean and City is a clear-eyed and harrowing story of this largely African American community's struggles and resiliency in the face of grinding poverty, urban renewal schemes gone wrong, and a forced ghettoization by the sea.