New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate

by Tom Angotti and Peter Marcuse

Book Overview

How community-based planning has challenged the powerful real estate industry in New York City.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262515938
• ISBN13: 9780262515931
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher