Bargaining for Brooklyn : community organizations in the entrepreneurial city /

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Author / Creator:	Marwell, Nicole P.
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Description:	1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Community development -- New York (State) -- New York. Community organization -- New York (State) -- New York. Urban renewal -- New York (State) -- New York -- Citizen participation. Sociology, Urban -- New York (State) -- New York. Community development. Community organization. Sociology, Urban. Urban renewal -- Citizen participation. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) New York (State) -- New York. New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11218797

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ISBN:	9780226509082 0226509087 9780226509068 0226509060 9780226509075 0226509079
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-277) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	When middle-class residents fled American cities in the 1960s and 1970s, government services and investment capital left too. Countless urban neighborhoods thus entered phases of precipitous decline, prompting the creation of community-based organizations that sought to bring direly needed resources back to the inner city. Today there are tens of thousands of these CBOs--private nonprofit groups that work diligently within tight budgets to give assistance and opportunity to our most vulnerable citizens by providing services such as housing, child care, and legal aid. Through ethnographic fieldwo.
Other form:	Print version: Marwell, Nicole P. Bargaining for Brooklyn. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007

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