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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• Autori: Benjamin/ Smithsimon Shepard, Smithsimon Gregory, Shepard Benjamin Heim, Benjamin Shepard, Greg Smithsimon, Gregory Smithsimon, Benjamin Heim Shepard
• Editore: State University of New York Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.03.2011
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche
• EAN: 9781438436203
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-3620-3
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Serie: Excelsior Editions
• Categorie: 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