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, Shepard Benjamin Heim, Greg Smithsimon, Gregory Smithsimon, Smithsimon Gregory
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2011
• EAN: 9781438436203
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-3620-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Excelsior Editions
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Anthropology, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Gender studies, gender groups, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, City and town planning: architectural aspects