Brooklyn Tides The Fall and Rise of a Global Borough

Brooklyn has all the features of a "global borough": It is a base of immigrant labor and ethnically diverse communities, of social and cultural capital, of global transportation, cultural production, and policy innovation. At once a model of sustainable urbanization and overdevelopment, the question is now: What will become of Global Brooklyn?
Tracing the emergence of Brooklyn from village outpost to global borough, Brooklyn Tides investigates the nature and consequences of global forces that have crossed the East River and identifies alternative models for urban development in global capitalism. Benjamin Shepard and Mark Noonan provide a unique ethnographic reading of the literature, social activism, and changing tides impacting this ever-transforming space.
Cover and interior images of a rapidly transforming global borough by photographer Caroline Shepard.

Info autore

Benjamin Heim Shepard is a professor of Human Services at New York City College of Technology, located across the street from Brooklyn Bridge in the epicenter of a rapidly transforming downtown Brooklyn. Much of Shepard's scholarship is based on the ethnographic study of social services and social movements in New York. He is the author/editor of many books, including Rebel Friendships, The Beach Beneath the Streets and From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Benjamin Heim Shepard, Mark J. Noonan, Benjamin Shepard, Mark Noonan
• Con la collaborazione di: Caroline Shepard (Fotografie)
• Editore: Transcript
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 28.02.2018
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze umane, tematiche generali; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche
• EAN: 9783837638677
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-3867-7
• Numero di pagine: 284
• Illustrazioni: 165 SW-Abb., 15 Farbabb.
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 14.9 x 22.6 x 1.8 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 446 g
• Serie: Urban Studies
• Categorie: Soziologie, Erdkunde, Stadtentwicklung, Soziologie / Bevölkerung, Siedlung, Stadt, Geografie - Geograf, New York City / Geschichte, Politik, Gesellschaft, auseinandersetzen