Brian D. Goldstein’s The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem accounts for the transformation of the Manhattan neighborhood from the 1960s to the present. He locates the source of this ambition with radical social movements in the 1960s that fought for control over their part of New York. In the following decades, trajectories changed, and the goal transformed to become a place of economic progress, with increasing wealth and retail offerings. Goldstein documents how, in this history, gentrification resulted from internal grassroot efforts rather than the influx of real estate–thirsty outsiders.
The book was originally published by Princeton University Press in 2017. Today,
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