Brooklyn's Bushwick - Urban Renewal in New York, USA: Community, Planning and Sustainable Environments

by Raymond Charles Rauscher and Salim Momtaz

Book Overview

This book offers an extended case study of the urban community of Bushwick, located in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The authors begin with a broad review of the history of Bushwick and Brooklyn, from before the earliest European settlements of the 1600s, through the 18th and 19th centuries and up the 1960s. Chapter Two begins by tracing the steep decline of the community, which culminated in catastrophic fires and looting in the wake...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319381210
• ISBN13: 9783319381213
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"