基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2003.
Full Description
In response to the riots of the mid-'60s, Walter Thabit was hired to work with the community of East New York to develop a plan for low- and moderate-income public housing. In the years that followed, he experienced first-hand the forces that had engineered East New York's dramatic decline and that continued to work against its successful revitalization. How East New York Became a Ghetto describes the shift of East New York from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to a largely black and Puerto Rican neighborhood and shows how the resulting racially biased policies caused the deterioration of this once flourishing area.
A clear-sighted, unflinching look at one ghetto community, How East New York Became a Ghetto provides insights and observations on the histories and fates of ghettos throughout the United States.
Contents
Foreword by Frances Fox Piven Acknowledgments Introduction1 Welcome to East New York 2 The Population Wave 3 The Ghettoization of East New York 4 Destruction of the "Target Area" 5 The Uniformed (and Other) Services 6 The Youth of East New York 7 Vest Pocket Planning 8 Vest Pocket Implementation 9 The Model Cities Fiasco10 School Planning 11 East New York under Siege 12 The FHA Scandals 13 The Community School Board Disaster 14 Rebuilding in East New York 15 The Hard Road to Recovery 16 Policing the Ghetto Epilogue Notes IndexAbout the Author
