Neighborhood as spatial project: Making the urban order on the downtown Brooklyn waterfront

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 471-497

  Madden, David J ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brooklyn; Critical urban theory; Gentrification; Neighborhood; Neighborhood effects; New York; Spatial project; Urban development; Urban politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894563901     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: 14682427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12068     Document Type: Article

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