Brooklyn Tides: The Fall and Rise of a Global Borough

Benjamin Heim Shepard; Mark J. Noonan

Published by transcript Verlag 2018

Brooklyn Tides

The Fall and Rise of a Global Borough

Benjamin Heim Shepard and Mark J. Noonan
Photographs by: Caroline Shepard

In the series Urban Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839438671

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.
Mark J. Noonan is professor of English at New York City College of Technology. He is the author of Reading the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870-1893 (Kent State UP, 2010) and co-editor of The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing About New York City (2012). His current book project is entitled City of Print: New York and the Periodical Press.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Prologue. Brooklyn Is Expanding: Introductory Notes on a Global Borough Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter one. Global Brooklyn: A Prehistory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Chapter two. Chants Undemocratic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Chapter three. Community, Migration, Displacement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Chapter four. Toxicity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Chapter five. Fighting Police Brutality in Global Brooklyn: From Ferguson to NYC Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Chapter six. The World City and the Space of Neighborhoods: The Battle of Brooklyn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Chapter seven. Of Tempests and Storms: Super-Storm Sandy and Climate Chaos in Global Brooklyn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Chapter eight. Community Gardening, Creative Activism, and the Struggle for Open Space Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Chapter nine. Rethinking Jay Street and the Downtown the City Forgot: Lost Between Double-parked Cars and Ugly Buildings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Epilogue. The Global Street Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Endnotes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
The Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 284
Keywords: Brooklyn; Global Brooklyn; Cultural History; Capitalism; Social Activism; City; Globalization; Urban Studies; America; Sociology

eBook

Published: March 27, 2018
ISBN: 9783839438671