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192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/45810| Title: | Brooklyn’s Bushwick - Urban Renewal in New York, USA |
| Authors: | Momtaz, Salim |
| Keywords: | Community, Planning and Sustainable Environments |
| Issue Date: | 2014 |
| Publisher: | Switzerland |
| Description: | The book offers a case example model of the urban communities of Bushwick and Northeast Brooklyn, New York City. The story of Bushwick is the central starting point, given its recovery from decades of decline. The book commences (Chap. 1 ) by examining the urban history of Bushwick and Northeast Brooklyn up to the 1960s. Topics include: famous people in Brooklyn’s past; disappearance of native American Indians; signifi cance of the Battle of Long Island (1776); Old Brooklyn’s Towns pre-1854; the emerging of the City of Brooklyn (1850s); and, fi nally Bushwick’s changing street patterns, and rise of industry, institutions, commercial areas, services and churches. |
| URI: | http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/45810 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-319-05762-0 |
| Appears in Collections: | Building Construction |
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