Tarry Hum

Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn's Sunset Park

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tarry Hum is Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Produktdetails

• Asian American History & Cultu
• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781439910900
• ISBN-10: 1439910901
• Artikelnr.: 39761003

Autorenporträt

Tarry Hum is Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
 
Introduction
 
1 Immigrant Places: Toward a Theory of Global Neighborhoods
2 Making Sunset Park: Settlement, Decline, and Transformation
3 The Working Poverty of Neighborhood Revitalization: Industrial Sweatshops
and Street Vendors
4 Immigrant Growth Coalitions and Neighborhood Change: The Role of Ethnic
Banks
5 Gentrifying Sunset Park: Community Boards, City Planning, and a Migrant
Civil Society
6 Power Plants, Sex Shops, Industrial Zones, and Open Space: The Politics
of a Sustainable Working Waterfront
 
Conclusion
 
Notes
References
Index