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New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate (Urban and Industrial Environments)

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Author: Tom Angotti
Creator: Peter Marcuse
Publisher: The MIT Press
Category: Book

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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 323
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.2

ISBN: 0262012472
Dewey Decimal Number: 307.1216097471
EAN: 9780262012478
ASIN: 0262012472

Publication Date: November 30, 2008
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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 most got little or no support from government. In fact, community-based plans in New York far outnumber the land-use plans produced by government agencies.br / br / In iNew York for Sale,/i Tom Angotti tells some of the stories of community planning in New York City: how activists moved beyond simple protests and began to formulate community plans to protect neighborhoods against urban renewal, real estate mega-projects, gentrification, and environmental hazards.br / br / Angotti, both observer of and longtime participant in New York community planning, focuses on the close relationships among community planning, political strategy, and control over land. After describing the political economy of New York City real estate, its close ties to global financial capital, and the roots of community planning in social movements and community organizing, Angotti turns to specifics. He tells of two pioneering plans forged in reaction to urban renewal plans (including the first community plan in the city, the 1961 Cooper Square Alternate Plan?a response to a Robert Moses urban renewal scheme); struggles for environmental justice, including battles over incinerators, sludge, and garbage; plans officially adopted by the city; and plans dominated by powerful real estate interests. Finally, Angotti proposes strategies for progressive, inclusive community planning not only for New York City but for anywhere that neighborhoods want to protect themselves and their land. iNew York for Sale/i teaches the empowering lesson that community plans can challenge market-driven development even in global cities with powerful real estate industries.

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