New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate

by Tom Angotti and Peter Marcuse

Book Overview

Remarkably, grassroots-based community planning flourishes in New York City -- the self-proclaimed "real estate capital of the world" -- with at least seventy community plans for different neighborhoods throughout the city. Most of these were developed during fierce struggles against gentrification, displacement, and environmental hazards, and most got little or no support from government. In fact, community-based plans in New York far outnumber the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262012472
• ISBN13: 9780262012478
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"