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Bezig met laden... The New American Ghetto (1995)door Camilo Jose Vergara
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A quite extraordinary documentation of how the American dream is founded on a nightmare. ( ) This is an amazing yet very depressing book. Camilo José Vergara has set out to record the decline of America's inner cities through photgraphs. I have lived through part of the decay in the city of Detroit. His photos and descriptions there are particularly poignant to me. One sees the inexorable decline as neighborhoods lose home through fire and abandonment, ultimately from hopelessness, despair, and crime. Some of the buildings left are heavily fortified with bars, and new buildings with no first story windows. Streets look forlorn devoid of most activity. Little effort can be made in most of these places to save the architectural jewels that are scattered around. It is almost that American urban life is irredeemable. And the signs of creativity and rebirth are few outside of Harlem. Vergara has mostly focused on Detroit of the five (once) large American rust belt cities which have lost over half their population since 1950: Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis. There is a picture of the abandoned Hough neighborhood in Cleveland. St. Louis is the one of this group that is beginning a population turn around, and Pittsburgh has the healthiest looking downtown. So there is scattered glimmer of hope -- maybe. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
The New American Ghetto provides an exploration, over nearly two decades, of ghettos in New York, Newark, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, and smaller cities. Camilo Jose Vergara chronicles, through photographs and text, the profound transformations experienced by these places since the riots of the 1960s. He provides direct observations of urban landscapes and interiors, from residential areas and institutions to vacant lots and abandoned factories. He takes successive photographs of the same places, tracking change over time - changes that have made the conditions of today's ghettos very different from those of an earlier era. Vergara's interviews with residents and historical research contribute to his unique view of the nature and meaning of the inner city. Termed "a photographic forecast of the demise of urban America," The New American Ghetto brings to light a world of forgotten ruin and struggling reconstruction. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)307.3362Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Communities Structure Patterns of use Residential use; housing patterns; sociology of housing NeighbourhoodsLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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