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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
ISBN: | 9780199930340 0199930341 |
OCLC Number: | 825094121 |
Notes: | Originally published: 2011. |
Description: | 1 v. : Illustrationen ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction ; Ch 1. Urban Wilderness ; Ch 2. Concord Village ; Ch 3. The Middle Cityscape ; Ch 4. The Two Machines in the Garden ; Ch 5. The Highway in the Garden ; Ch 6. Inventing Brownstone Brooklyn ; Ch 7. The Neighborhood Movement ; Conclusion: Brownstone Brooklyn Invented ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index |
Responsibility: | by Suleiman Osman. |
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[Osman] has told the story with great insight and drama through an eclectic and well-selected set of historical sources and a felicitous writerly prose. * Robert Self, American Historical Review *
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