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Book South Bronx Industrial Fair

Download or read book South Bronx Industrial Fair written by New York (N.Y.). City Planning, Department of. South Bronx Development Office and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book South Bronx Oak Point Link

Download or read book South Bronx Oak Point Link written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bronx

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  • Author : Evelyn Gonzalez
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2007-01-05
  • ISBN : 0231121156
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book The Bronx written by Evelyn Gonzalez and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bronx is a fascinating history of a singular borough, mapping its evolution from a loose cluster of commuter villages to a densely populated home for New York's African American and Hispanic populations. In recounting the varied and extreme transformations this community has undergone, Evelyn Gonzalez argues that racial discrimination, rampant crime, postwar liberalism, and big government were not the only reasons for the urban crisis that assailed the Bronx during the late 1960s. Rather, a combination of population shifts, public housing initiatives, economic recession, and urban overdevelopment caused its decline. Yet she also proves that ongoing urbanization and neighborhood fluctuations are the very factors that have allowed the Bronx to undergo one of the most successful and inspiring community revivals in American history. The process of building and rebuilding carries on, and the revitalization of neighborhoods and a resurgence of economic growth continue to offer hope for the future.

Book Bronx International Exposition

Download or read book Bronx International Exposition written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Saving America s Cities

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  • Author : Lizabeth Cohen
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2019-10-01
  • ISBN : 0374721602
  • Pages : 331 pages

Download or read book Saving America s Cities written by Lizabeth Cohen and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bancroft Prize In twenty-first-century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable housing. Cities have limited tools to address these problems, and many must rely on the private market to support the public good. It wasn’t always this way. For almost three decades after World War II, even as national policies promoted suburban sprawl, the federal government underwrote renewal efforts for cities that had suffered during the Great Depression and the war and were now bleeding residents into the suburbs. In Saving America’s Cities, the prizewinning historian Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private interests that would culminate in the neoliberal rush to privatize efforts to solve entrenched social problems. A Yale-trained lawyer, rival of Robert Moses, and sometime critic of Jane Jacobs, Logue saw renewing cities as an extension of the liberal New Deal. He worked to revive a declining New Haven, became the architect of the “New Boston” of the 1960s, and, later, led New York State’s Urban Development Corporation, which built entire new towns, including Roosevelt Island in New York City. Logue’s era of urban renewal has a complicated legacy: Neighborhoods were demolished and residents dislocated, but there were also genuine successes and progressive goals. Saving America’s Cities is a dramatic story of heartbreak and destruction but also of human idealism and resourcefulness, opening up possibilities for our own time.

Book The Urban Jobs and Enterprise Zone Act of 1981

Download or read book The Urban Jobs and Enterprise Zone Act of 1981 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book South Bronx Rising

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  • Author : Jill Jonnes
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2022-10-04
  • ISBN : 1531501222
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book South Bronx Rising written by Jill Jonnes and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough—ravaged in the 1970s and ’80s by disinvestment and fires, then heroically revived and rebuilt in the 1990s by community activists—Jill Jonnes returns to chronicle the ongoing revival of the South Bronx. Though now globally renowned as the birthplace of hip-hop, the South Bronx remains America’s poorest urban congressional district. In this new edition, we meet the present generation of activists who are transforming their communities with the arts and greening, notably the restoration of the Bronx River. For better or worse, real estate investors have noticed, setting off new gentrification struggles.

Book Organizing the South Bronx

Download or read book Organizing the South Bronx written by Jim Rooney and published by Suny Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of heroic and articulate individuals who were able to defy overwhelming odds and build affordable housing in the South Bronx. It is about the process of teaching citizens in a low-income neighborhood how to participate in public life. Very little is written about the catastrophic and precipitous collapse of the South Bronx, although its fate is universally cited as emblematic of urban hopelessness. This inquiry focuses on community organizers who are sifting through the wreckage and making progress in battling an inept municipal government and the centrifugal forces of decay. The locus is a coalition of forty minority congregations, who battled the city of New York for vacant land in order to build owner-occupied row houses. This is a study of how to educate adults in a democracy to find their voice and wield the power that is inherent in large numbers of organized citizens.

Book South Bronx

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  • Author : Bill Twomey
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780738510200
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book South Bronx written by Bill Twomey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a part of Westchester County, the Bronx was annexed to New York City in the nineteenth century. The South Bronx came to be defined as the area in the southwest part of the borough between the Harlem River and the Bronx River, with Fordham Road generally considered as the northern boundary. Less urban than nearby neighborhoods in Manhattan, the South Bronx attracted countless numbers of immigrants arriving in New York City in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Choosing to raise their families in what was then a country setting, they helped to make the South Bronx one of the most culturally diverse sections of New York. Churches, schools, ballparks, and streets of the old neighborhoods come back to life on the pages of South Bronx. This book revisits the Third Avenue trolley, Old West Farms, the Third Avenue El, tar beach, and the cobblestone roadways of a bygone era. The breweries and old-time taverns that were once such a vital part of the culture of the South Bronx are found anew in these pages. The Schnorer Club, the Elks Club on the Concourse, the Concourse Plaza Hotel, and Yankee Stadium come to life in this stunning collection of more than two hundred images.

Book Industrial Arts Index

Download or read book Industrial Arts Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Community Development Digest

Download or read book Community Development Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wedtech

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  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Wedtech written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Departments of Commerce  Justice  and State  the Judiciary  and related agencies appropriations for 1984

Download or read book Departments of Commerce Justice and State the Judiciary and related agencies appropriations for 1984 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 2012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Immigration and American Popular Culture

Download or read book Immigration and American Popular Culture written by Rachel Lee Rubin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigration and American Popular Culture looks at the relationship between American immigrants and the popular culture industry in the twentieth century. Through a series of case studies, Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick uncover how particular trends in popular culture-such as portrayals of European immigrants as gangsters in 1930s cinema, the zoot suits of the 1940s, the influence of Jamaican Americans on rap in the 1970s, and cyberpunk and Asian American zines in the 1990s-have their roots in the complex socio-political nature of immigration in America. Supplemented by a timeline of key events, Immigration and American Popular Culture offers a unique history of twentieth-century U.S. immigration and an essential introduction to the study of popular culture.

Book Oversight on the New York City Seasonal Financing Act

Download or read book Oversight on the New York City Seasonal Financing Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 2136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: