Selling the Lower East Side


This page provides links to topics covered in chapters
two through nine of
Selling the Lower East Side.

2 Different and Inferior: The Ghetto at the Turn of the Century

3 Utopian Metropolis v. the Legacy of the Slum

4 Reengineering the Ghetto: Ethnicity, Race, and Cultural Divisions in the 1950s

5 A Brief Psychedelic Tour: "Hip" Urban Renewal and the Invention of the East Village

6 Urban Malaise, Community Abandonment and Underground Subcultures of Decay

7 Developing the East Village: Eighties Counterculture in the Service of Urban Capital

8 Targeting the Middle Class: Cultures of Resistance and Class Warfare

9 The Production of Desire: Urban Development and Community Resistance at the End of the Twentieth Century

 

Click on a number above or on the sidebar to the left for the chapter you wish to explore.



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