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
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