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Though New York's Lower East Side today is home to high-end condos and hip restaurants, it spent decades as an infamous site of blight, open-air drug dealing, and class conflict--an emblematic example of the tattered state of 1970s and '80s Manhattan.   Those decades of strife, however, also gave the Lower East Side something unusual: a radical movement that blended urban homesteading and European-style squatting into something never before seen in the United States. Ours to Lose tells the oral history of that movement through a close look at a diverse group of Lower East Side squatters who occupied abandoned city-owned buildings in the 1980s, fought to keep them for decades, and eventually began a long, complicated process to turn their illegal occupancy into legal cooperative ownership. Amy Starecheski here not only tells a little-known New York story, she also shows how property shapes our sense of ourselves as social beings and explores the ethics of homeownership and debt in post-recession America.  

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• Pełny tytuł: Ours to Lose - When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City
• Autor: Amy Starecheski
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 344
• EAN: 9780226399942
• ISBN: 022639994X
• ID: 11360925
• Wydawca: The University of Chicago Press
• Waga: 462 g
• Wymiary: 242 × 146 × 19 mm
• Data wydania: 22. November 2016

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