The New American Ghetto - Softcover

Vergara, Camilo Jose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813523311 ISBN 13: 9780813523316

Verlag: Rutgers University Press, 1997

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Book by Camilo Jose Vergara

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Reseña del editor:

Vergara has chronicled life in poor and minority communities across the United States in the New York Times, Atlantic, the Nation, the Village Voice, and other publications. Following in the footsteps of 19th-century urban reformer Jacob Riis, the author, through the power of photography, reveals the destitution and vulgarities of urban decay. Chicago; Newark, New Jersey; New York; Detroit; Los Angeles; and several other cities are the backdrops for his 400 photographs. Vergara focuses on the physical environment, showing the transformation of particular sites over time. His tour of dilapidated neighborhoods and crumbling downtowns is visually startling. Vergara lays bare the direction of a new urbanness that strips the grandeur from its fabric and lays waste to the cityscape, pointing out that while we have wasted cities, many of the ruins are magnificent. An invaluable resource for urban studies and architecture collections.

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Illustrated with hundreds of photographs of urban America, this work portrays the stark devastation wrought over the last 30 years in the inner city. Wishing to provide a visual record for future generations, Vergara's document puts America to shame.

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• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0813523311
• ISBN 13: 9780813523316
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256