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Author	Osman, Suleiman.
Title	The invention of brownstone Brooklyn : gentrification and the search for authenticity in postwar New York / Suleiman Osman.
Publication Info.	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 3	307.76 O	IN LIBRARY

Description	x, 348 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Urban wilderness -- Concord village -- The middle cityscape of Brooklyn Heights -- The two machines in the garden -- The highway in the garden and the literature of gentrification -- Inventing brownstone Brooklyn -- The neighborhood movement.
Subject	Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century.
	Gentrification -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
	City planning -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
	Community development -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
	Urban renewal -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Added Author	New York City Book Awards (New York Society Library). 2011. ZNS
Added Title	Gentrification and the search for authenticity in postwar New York
ISBN	9780195387315 (hbk. : alk. paper)
	0195387317 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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