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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Shepard, Benjamin Heim
• Noonan, Mark J
• Shepard, Caroline[Fotograf]

Titel

Brooklyn Tides : The Fall and Rise of a Global Borough

Ist Teil von

• Urban Studies

Auflage

1st ed

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 7 Acknowledgements 11 Prologue. Brooklyn Is Expanding: Introductory Notes on a Global Borough 15 Chapter one. Global Brooklyn: A Prehistory 35 Chapter two. Chants Undemocratic 59 Chapter three. Community, Migration, Displacement 77 Chapter four. Toxicity 95 Chapter five. Fighting Police Brutality in Global Brooklyn: From Ferguson to NYC 117 Chapter six. The World City and the Space of Neighborhoods: The Battle of Brooklyn 139 Chapter seven. Of Tempests and Storms: Super-Storm Sandy and Climate Chaos in Global Brooklyn 165 Chapter eight. Community Gardening, Creative Activism, and the Struggle for Open Space 185 Chapter nine. Rethinking Jay Street and the Downtown the City Forgot: Lost Between Double-parked Cars and Ugly Buildings 209 Epilogue. The Global Street 227 Endnotes 251 The Authors 281
• 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, the question is now: What will become of Global Brooklyn? Tracing the emergence of Brooklyn from village outpost to global borough, Brooklyn Tides investigates the nature and consequences of global forces that have crossed the East River and identifies alternative models for urban development in global capitalism. Benjamin Shepard and Mark Noonan provide a unique ethnographic reading of the literature, social activism, and changing tides impacting this ever-transforming space. Cover and interior images of a rapidly transforming global borough by photographer Caroline Shepard.
• Issued also in print.
• Benjamin Heim Shepard is a professor of Human Services at New York City College of Technology, located across the street from Brooklyn Bridge in the epicenter of a rapidly transforming downtown Brooklyn. Much of Shepard's scholarship is based on the ethnographic study of social services and social movements in New York. He is the author/editor of many books, including Rebel Friendships, The Beach Beneath the Streets and From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization.
• Mark J. Noonan is professor of English at New York City College of Technology. He is the author of Reading the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870-1893 (Kent State UP, 2010) and co-editor of The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing About New York City (2012). His current book project is entitled City of Print: New York and the Periodical Press.
• In English.