{"product_id":"from-urban-village-to-east-village-isbn-9781557865250","title":"From Urban Village to East Village","description":"This landmark study explores a new reality in today's inner cities - one that diverges radically from the dominant models of either the urban village, with its shared culture, or the disorganized zone of urban anomie.  \u003cp\u003eGrowing numbers of inner city neighbourhoods now contain populations drawn from a multiplicity of ethnicities, subcultures, and classes. These groups may share physical space, but they pursue disparate ways of life and hold very different views of their neighbourhood's future. Such areas have become contested turf - arenas of heated political struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNowhere has this struggle been so complexly joined than in the East Village on New York's Lower East Side. For over two decades, established and new immigrants, community activists, hippies, squatters, yuppies, developers, drug dealers, artists, the homeless, and the police have been battling for control of the district and its central meeting ground, Tompkins Square Park.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased on five years of research and participant observation, this book gives a vivid account of the contestants and their struggles in the battle for the Lower East Side. It is a battle which is likely to be replicated, perhaps less violently, in many other parts of urban America.\u003c\/p\u003e Welcome to the neighborhood \/ Janet Abu-Lughod \u003cp\u003eThe changing economy of the Lower East Side \/ Jan Chien Lin\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe tenement as a built form \/ Richard Plunz and Janet Abu-Lughod\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA history of Tompkins Square Park \/ Marci Reaven and Jeanne Houck\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDéjà vu: replanning the Lower East Side in the 1930s \/ Suzanne Wasserman\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeighborhood \"burn-out\": Puerto Ricans at the end of the queue \/ Christopher Mele\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: The other side of the coin: culture in Loisaida \/ Mario Maffi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom disinvestment to reinvestment: mapping the urban 'frontier' in the Lower East Side \/ Neil Smith, Betsy Duncan, and Laura Reid\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe process of gentrification in Alphabet City \/ Christopher Mele\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublic action: New York City policy and the gentrification of the Lower East Side \/ William Sites\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA resident's view of conflict on Tompkins Square Park \/ Diana R. Gordon\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe battle for Tompkins Square Park \/ Janet Abu-Lughod\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe residents in Tompkins Square Park \/ Dorine Greshof and John Dale\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe squatters: a chorus of voices ... but is anyone listening? \/ Andrew Van Kleunen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefending the cross-subsidy plan: the tortoise wins again\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusions and implications \/ Janet Abu-Lughod\u003c\/p\u003e  \"[a] fascinating book ... \u003ci\u003eFrom Urban Village to East Village\u003c\/i\u003e is a formidable achievement.\" Progress in Human Geography .\/ \"As one who has done community studies, my first reaction to Janet Abu-Lughod's ambitious volume about New York's Lower East Side was frankly one of jealousy. I envy her the cadre of able student ethnographers that she was able to field. I envy the colleagues from various disciplines-political scientist Diana Gordon, photographer Marlis Momber, architectural historian Richard Plunz, and geographer Neil Simth-who she draws on to fill in the gaps in the student accounts. I envy her this research site-no doubt among the most politically contested and sociologically complex two square miles of real estate in America. Mostly, I suppose I envy her nerve. Not surprisingly, Abu-lughod was new to New York when she began this project. It is hard to imagine anyone more immersed in the local political culture taking on an area so historically dense. What is surprising is how generally successful the resulting volume is.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhilip Kasinitz, AJS Vol 101 No 5\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"From Urban Village to East Village: The Battle for New York's Lower East Side\u003c\/i\u003e works towards bridging this troubling gap in the literature by examining stuggles over urban space on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The result of a collaborative research project directed by Janet Abu-Lughod, the volume situates recent and highly publicized conflicts over housing and public space on the Lower East Side within an interdisciplinary analysis of the neighborhood's changing relationship to the city's political economy... The volume's refreshingly political analysis of contests over urban space, too complex to treat fully here, underscores both the rewards of collaborative research and the importance of grounding our analyses of urban restructuring in particular palces in the multiple arenas of political practice where space is invested with cultural meaning and economic value\u003ci\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e  Steven Gregory, Urban\u003c!--end--\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eJanet L. Abu-Lughod\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Sociology in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, New York. She is one of America's leading commentators on urban affairs.  This landmark study explores a new reality in today's inner cities - one that diverges radically from the dominant models of either the urban village, with its shared culture, or the disorganized zone of urban anomie.  \u003cp\u003eGrowing numbers of inner city neighbourhoods now contain populations drawn from a multiplicity of ethnicities, subcultures, and classes. These groups may share physical space, but they pursue disparate ways of life and hold very different views of their neighbourhood's future. Such areas have become contested turf - arenas of heated political struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNowhere has this struggle been so complexly joined than in the East Village on New York's Lower East Side. For over two decades, established and new immigrants, community activists, hippies, squatters, yuppies, developers, drug dealers, artists, the homeless, and the police have been battling for control of the district and its central meeting ground, Tompkins Square Park.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased on five years of research and participant observation, this book gives a vivid account of the contestants and their struggles in the battle for the Lower East Side. It is a battle which is likely to be replicated, perhaps less violently, in many other parts of urban America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989250130149,"sku":"NP9781557865250","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781557865250.jpg?v=1761783377","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/from-urban-village-to-east-village-isbn-9781557865250","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}