'From the frying pan to the oven': Gentrification and the experience of industrial displacement in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Urban Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1427-1440

  Curran, Winifred ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENTRIFICATION; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; NEIGHBORHOOD; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECONOMY;

BROOKLYN; NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547533655     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00420980701373438     Document Type: Article

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