Dual City: Restructuring New York (The City in the twenty-first century)

Have the last two decades produced a New York composed of two separate and unequal cities? As the contributors to Dual City reveal, the complexity of inequality in New York defies simple distinctions between black and white, the Yuppies and the homeless. The city's changing economic structure has intersected with an increasingly diversified population, providing upward mobility for some groups while isolating others. As race, gender, ethnicity, and class become ever more critical components of the postindustrial city, the New York experience illuminates not just one great city, or indeed all large cities, but the forces affecting most of the globe. "The authors constitute an impressive assemblage of seasoned scholars, representing a wide array of pertinent disciplines. Their product is a pioneering volume in the social sciences and urban studies...the 20-page bibliography is a major research tool on its own." ―Choice Cover Title page, Copyright Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Decline and Rise of the New York Economy 2. The Changing Ethnic/Racial Division of Labor 3. The Informal Economy 4. The Public Sector 5. The Geography of Employment and Residence in New York Since 1950 6. Upper Professionals: A High Command of Commerce, Culture, and Civic Regulation 7. Women Clerical Workers 8. The Separation of Mothers and Children 9. Crime and the Social Fabric 10. The Structure of the Media 11. Patterns of Neighborhood Change 12. The Changing Character of Community Politics in New York City: 1968-1988 13. Political Inequality 14. Poles Apart: Urban Restructuring in New York and Los Angeles 15. A Dual to New York? London in the 1980s Conclusion: Is New York a Dual City? References Name Index Subject Index Have the last two decades produced a New York composed of two separate and unequal cities? As the contributors to Dual City reveal, the complexity of inequality in New York defies simple distinctions between black and white, the Yuppies and the homeless. The city's changing economic structure has intersected with an increasingly diversified population, providing upward mobility for some groups while isolating others. As race, gender, ethnicity, and class become ever more critical components of the postindustrial city, the New York experience illuminates not just one great city, or indeed all large cities, but the forces affecting most of the globe. -- Amazon.com