New Brooklyn - What It Takes to Bring a City Back

In The New Brooklyn, Kay Hymowitz chronicles the policies and events that transformed Brooklyn so dramatically in such a short period of time. Her portrait of the dramatic transformation of one urban center offers prescriptions that any city can employ and will be required reading for everyone interested in the rebirth of America's cities.

About the author

Kay S. Hymowitz is the William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. She is the author of 4 books including Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age, Liberation's Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age, and Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men Into Boys. She has resided in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York since 1982.

Summary

In The New Brooklyn, Kay Hymowitz chronicles the policies and events that transformed Brooklyn so dramatically in such a short period of time. Her portrait of the dramatic transformation of one urban center offers prescriptions that any city can employ and will be required reading for everyone interested in the rebirth of America’s cities.

Product details

• Authors: Kay Hymowitz, Kay S Hymowitz, Kay S. Hymowitz
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781538116111
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-1611-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; New York, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Urban & municipal planning, Central / national / federal government policies, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Central government policies, New York (state)