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Brooklyn: The Once and Future City por Thomas J. Campanella
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Cantsaywhy | otra reseña | Aug 11, 2023 | Although this history sprawls all over the place, the author has certain trends he wants to pursue; Brooklyn as Manhattan's alter ego, Brooklyn as a complex of neighborhoods, Brooklyn's search for its own monumental identity, Brooklyn's fall as a bastion of the working man, and subsequent reinvention as the hipster's promised land. You can learn something useful upon opening to a given random page, which is another way of saying that I think Campanella could have produced a more tightly-written book.
If I have a particular gripe, it's that I would have liked to have learned more about what the impact of Hurricane Sandy (and flooding in general) meant to Brooklyn, maybe as part of a consideration about rising seas might mean to the locality. This would have been better than the rather cutesy endpoint we get on the ups and downs of gentrification. Still worth your time if you're interested in Brooklyn in particular, or U.S. urban history in general.
If I have a particular gripe, it's that I would have liked to have learned more about what the impact of Hurricane Sandy (and flooding in general) meant to Brooklyn, maybe as part of a consideration about rising seas might mean to the locality. This would have been better than the rather cutesy endpoint we get on the ups and downs of gentrification. Still worth your time if you're interested in Brooklyn in particular, or U.S. urban history in general.
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Shrike58 | otra reseña | Oct 31, 2022 | shelved in: Technical Library - at: B56:51
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HB-Library | otra reseña | Feb 14, 2016 | This is a wonderful book. It is a large format book filed with aerial photos of most major cities inthe United States. They date from the 1920's to the 1950's. It is fun to track changes in cities I have lived in. I've tried to discern the public transport network various cities used to have, particularly trolleys and elevated railways. The book is arranged from east to west. Some large cities like Boston and New York have several photos.½
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vpfluke | otra reseña | Nov 27, 2009 | Very large, even for a coffee table book. Gorgeous photos. All black-and-white. Coverage of West Coast is less interesting to me and maybe only a quarter of the book.
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smackfu | otra reseña | Nov 28, 2005 | Technical Library - shelved at: B56:51
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HB-Library-159 | otra reseña | Oct 19, 2016 | Este sitio utiliza cookies para ofrecer nuestros servicios, mejorar el rendimiento, análisis y (si no estás registrado) publicidad. Al usar LibraryThing reconoces que has leído y comprendido nuestros términos de servicio y política de privacidad. El uso del sitio y de los servicios está sujeto a estas políticas y términos.