Annemarie H Sammartino

Freedomland

Co-Op City and the Story of New York

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Tells the story of the 35 towers and 236 townhouses of Co-op City in the Bronx from the perspective of the men and women who dreamed it and built it, and of the ordinary people who lived there"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9781501716430
• ISBN-10: 1501716433
• Artikelnr.: 62121899

Autorenporträt

Annemarie H. Sammartino is Professor of History at Oberlin College and Conservatory. She is the author of The Impossible Border.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Co
op City and the Story of New York 1. "The World's Greatest Housing Cooperative": Building a New City, 1965
1968 2. "Everyone Was Seekinga Utopia": Building a Community, 1968
1973 3. "We Remember Picket Lines": Cooperator Militancy, 1970
1974 4. "No Way,We Won't Pay": The Rent Strike, 1975
1976 5. "We Inherited a Mess!": After the Rent Strike, 1977
1981 6. "Co
op City Is the Bronx": A Middle
Class Community, 1982
1993 7. "The Biggest Housing Bargain in Town": Achieving Financial Stability, 1981
1993 Epilogue: Freedomland Today