The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem, Expanded Edition

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem, Expanded Edition
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Brian D. Goldstein
Foreword by Thomas J. Sugrue
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:440
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 156
Category/GenreArt and design styles - Modernist design and Bauhaus
Architecture
Residential buildings and domestic buildings
ISBN/Barcode 9780691234755
ClassificationsDewey:307.14097471
Audience
General
Illustrations 43 b/w illus.

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
NZ Release Date 20 June 2023
Publication Country United States

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.

Author Biography

Brian D. Goldstein is associate professor of architectural history in the Department of Art and Art History at Swarthmore College.

Reviews

"Winner of the John Friedmann Book Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning" "Winner of the Lewis Mumford Prize, Society of City and Regional Planning History"