The Roots of Urban Renaissance

Released on by Brian D. Goldstein
preview-18

  • The Roots of Urban Renaissance Book Detail

  • Author : Brian D. Goldstein
  • Release Date : 2023-03-14
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Genre : Architecture
  • Pages : 400
  • ISBN 13 : 0691234752
  • File Size : 36,36 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

The Roots of Urban Renaissance by Brian D. Goldstein PDF Summary

Book Description: An acclaimed history of Harlem’s journey from urban crisis to urban renaissance With its gleaming shopping centers and refurbished row houses, today’s Harlem bears little resemblance to the neighborhood of the midcentury urban crisis. Brian Goldstein traces Harlem’s Second Renaissance to a surprising source: the radical social movements of the 1960s that resisted city officials and fought to give Harlemites control of their own destiny. Young Harlem activists, inspired by the civil rights movement, envisioned a Harlem built by and for its low-income, predominantly African American population. In the succeeding decades, however, the community-based organizations they founded came to pursue a very different goal: a neighborhood with national retailers and increasingly affluent residents. The Roots of Urban Renaissance demonstrates that gentrification was not imposed on an unwitting community by unscrupulous developers or opportunistic outsiders. Rather, it grew from the neighborhood’s grassroots, producing a legacy that benefited some longtime residents and threatened others.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Roots of Urban Renaissance books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.