Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.
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• Introduction: The world in Brooklyn / Judith N. DeSena, Timothy Shortell — Mapping a changing Brooklyn, mapping a changing world: gentrification and immigration, 2000-2008 / Lorna Mason, Ed Morlock, Christina Pisano — Forgetting poverty in Brooklyn and the United States / William DiFazio — Gentrification in everyday life in Brooklyn / Judith N. DeSena — Williamsburg walks : public space and community events in a gentrified neighborhood / Sara Martucci — The environmental injustice of green gentrification: the case of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park / Kenneth A. Gould, Tammy L. Lewis — Rezoning Coney Island: a history of decline and revival, of heroes and villains at the people’s playground / Alessandro Busà — The Gowanus Canal: local politics of superfunding status / Shanna Farrell — Striving for sustainability on the urban waterfront: the case of Newtown Creek / Steve Lang — Riding the bus in Brooklyn: seeing the spectacle of everyday multicultural life / Jerome Krase — Brooklyn and Belleville: on the visual semiotics of ethnic identity in two immigrant neighborhoods / Timothy Shortell — Constructing an oppositional community: Sunset Park and the politics of organizing across difference / Mark Treskon — An ethnography of local politics in a Brooklyn Caribbean community / Evrick Brown — The dual roles of Brighton Beach: a local and global community / Phyllis Conn — Hood politics: charter schools, race and gentrification in Fort Greene / Noel S. Anderson — Revising Canarsie: racial transition and neighborhood stability in Brooklyn / Jennifer Candipan … [et al.].
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects:

• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Social conditions.
• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Economic conditions.
• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Ethnic relations.
• Gentrification — New York (State) — Brooklyn.
• Community development — New York (State) — Brooklyn.

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