The Beach Beneath the Streets - Contesting New York City's Public Spaces

Informationen zum Autor Benjamin Shepard is Assistant Professor of Human Services at New York City College of Technology, CUNY. He is the author or editor of several books, including White Nights and Ascending Shadows: An Oral History of the San Francisco AIDS Empidemic , and From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization . Gregory Smithsimon is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Klappentext Examines New York City as a paradigmatic example of the tensions between privatization and public uses of space in the contemporary U.S.

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• Authors: Benjamin Shepard, Benjamin Heim Shepard, Benjamin/ Smithsimon Shepard, Greg Smithsimon, Gregory Smithsimon
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.06.2011
• EAN: 9781438436197
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-3619-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories