Selling the Lower East Side

Chapter 6
Urban Malaise, Community
Abandonment and Underground
Subcultures of Decay

6.1 Urban Cynicism and Decline
in the 1970s
6.2 The Emergence of Loisaida
6.3 Building the Loisaida Community
in the 1960s
6.4 The Marginalization of Loisaida
in the 1970s
6.5 Fiscal Crisis, Local Government
and Housing Abandonment
6.6 Stages of Community Abandonment
6.7 The Social Consequences of
Abandonment for Loisaida
6.8 Community Resistance to
Abandonment
6.9 The Subcultures of Urban Decay
6.Bib Additional Readings

 

 

 

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