From "Five Angry Women" to "Kick-ass Community": Gentrification and Environmental Activism in Brooklyn and Beyond

Urban Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1557-1574

  Hamilton, Trina ^a   Curran, Winifred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEANUP; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; GENTRIFICATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; POLITICAL POWER; RESIDENT POPULATION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SUSTAINABILITY; WOMENS STATUS;

BROOKLYN; NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NEWTOWN CREEK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876960540     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098012465128     Document Type: Article

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