Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City

by Nicole P. Marwell (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2007

  $33.72

  When middle-class residents fled American cities in the 1960s and '70s, government services and investment capital left too. Countless urban neighborhoods entered phases of precipitous decline, prompting the creation of community-based organizations to bring resources back to the city. This book examines such organizations that drive urban life.