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Sto caricando le informazioni... Brooklyn: The Once and Future Citydi Thomas J. Campanella
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I liked it, but I didn't love it. Probably more like 3.5 stars. I was hoping for a history that someone from the outside (not having grown up in Brooklyn) would understand and appreciate, and this wasn't it. Packed with information, but a bit random in its journey through time and place. The writing is good, engaging, but it could have been more. Just sayin'...Prior to this I have read Gotham and Greater Gotham (histories of NYC) and I thoroughly enjoyed those. ( ) Although this history sprawls all over the place, the author has certain trends he wants to pursue; Brooklyn as Manhattan's alter ego, Brooklyn as a complex of neighborhoods, Brooklyn's search for its own monumental identity, Brooklyn's fall as a bastion of the working man, and subsequent reinvention as the hipster's promised land. You can learn something useful upon opening to a given random page, which is another way of saying that I think Campanella could have produced a more tightly-written book. If I have a particular gripe, it's that I would have liked to have learned more about what the impact of Hurricane Sandy (and flooding in general) meant to Brooklyn, maybe as part of a consideration about rising seas might mean to the locality. This would have been better than the rather cutesy endpoint we get on the ups and downs of gentrification. Still worth your time if you're interested in Brooklyn in particular, or U.S. urban history in general. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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A major new history of Brooklyn, told through its landscapes, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to todayBrooklyn is a global brand both celebrated and scorned as the hippest place in America. Yet few know the back story of this extraordinary place. In Brooklyn: The Once and Future City, Thomas Campanella unearths long-lost threads of the urban past and weaves them into a narrative about the rise, fall, and reinvention of this most American city.From Vinegar Hill to Sheepshead Bay, and Bay Ridge to Brownsville, Campanella recounts the making of places familiar and long forgotten, bringing to life the individuals whose dreams, visions, rackets, and schemes forged the city we know today. He takes us through Brooklyn's early days as homeland of the Leni Lenape and its transformation by Dutch colonists into a dense slaveholding region. We learn about English émigré Deborah Moody, whose town of Gravesend was the first founded by a woman in America. We see how wanderlust Yale dropout Frederick Law Olmsted used Prospect Park to anchor an open space system that was to reach back to Manhattan. And we witness Brooklyn's emergence as a playland of racetracks and amusement parks celebrated around the world.From the teddy bear to transcontinental flight, Brooklyn has launched countless dreams. It was also a place of outsized failure, from Sam Friede's bid to erect the world's tallest building, to the long struggle to make Jamaica Bay the world's largest deep-water seaport, and the star-crossed urban renewal, public housing, and highway projects that battered the borough. Campanella reveals how this immigrant Promised Land drew millions, fell tragic victim to its own social anxieties, and yet proved resilient enough to reawaken as a multicultural powerhouse and symbol for all things woke, fresh, and vital. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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