{"product_id":"brooklyn-the-once-and-future-city-9780691165387","title":"Brooklyn: The Once and Future City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to today\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmerica's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades--celebrated and scorned as one of the hippest destinations in the world. In \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn: The Once and Future City\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas J. Campanella unearths long-lost threads of the urban past, telling the rich history of the rise, fall, and reinvention of one of the world's most resurgent cities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpanning centuries and neighborhoods, Brooklyn-born Campanella recounts the creation of places familiar and long forgotten, both built and never realized, bringing to life the individuals whose dreams, visions, rackets, and schemes forged the city we know today. He takes us through Brooklyn's history as homeland of the Leni Lenape and its transformation by Dutch colonists into a dense slaveholding region. We learn about English  migr  Deborah Moody, whose town of Gravesend was the first founded by a woman in America. We see how wanderlusting Yale dropout Frederick Law Olmsted used Prospect Park to anchor an open space system that was to reach back to Manhattan. And we witness Brooklyn's emergence as a playland of racetracks and amusement parks celebrated around the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCampanella also describes Brooklyn's outsized failures, from Samuel Friede's bid to erect the world's tallest building to the long struggle to make Jamaica Bay the world's largest deepwater seaport, and the star-crossed urban renewal, public housing, and highway projects that battered the borough in the postwar era. Campanella reveals how this immigrant Promised Land drew millions, fell victim to its own social anxieties, and yet proved resilient enough to reawaken as a multicultural powerhouse and global symbol of urban vitality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas J. Campanella\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of urban studies and city planning at Cornell University and historian-in-residence of the New York City Parks Department. His books include \u003ci\u003eRepublic of Shade\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Concrete Dragon\u003c\/i\u003e, and his writing has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. He divides his time between Ithaca and the Marine Park neighborhood of Brooklyn where he grew up. Twitter @builtbrooklyn\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844951347474,"sku":"9780691165387","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3dce4ed5-9b7f-4109-9fed-833d5d9f57b2.jpg?v=1737337399","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/brooklyn-the-once-and-future-city-9780691165387","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}