Title Hell's Kitchen and the battle for urban space : class struggle and progressive reform in New York City 1894-1914 / Joseph J. Varga

Published New York : Monthly Review Press, 2013

Click on the following:
EBSCO eBooks

Copies

Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Death in the Kitchen; CHAPTER 1: SPACE AS HISTORY; Hell's Kitchen; Uneven Geographic Development; The Production of Space; Implications; CHAPTER 2: RESTRUCTURING PROGRESSIVES; Progressive Vision and Visibility; Visibility and Occlusion; Representational Space and Performance; CHAPTER 3: WHEN HELL FROZE OVER; Policing the Boundaries; CHAPTER 4: HOUSING AND VISIBLE SPACES; Imagined Spatial Communities; Kitchen Space; CHAPTER 5: SPATIAL ECONOMIES; Working in the City; The Laboring Body; CHAPTER 6: HELL, DEATH, AND URBAN POLITICS The Restructured Spatial ContainerSelf-Perception and Citizenship; Conclusion: The Spatial Production of Desire; The Future of Cities; Bibliography; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z Summary Hell's Kitchen is among Manhattan's most storied and studied neighborhoods. A working-class district situated next to the West Side's middle- and upper-class residential districts, it has long attracted the focus of artists and urban planners, writers and reformers. Now, Joseph Varga takes us on a tour of Hell's Kitchen with an eye toward what we usually take for granted: space, and, particularly, how urban spaces are produced, controlled, and contested by different class and political forces. Varga examines events and locations in a crucial period in the formation of the Hell's Kitchen neighb Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject City planning -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York City planning -- Political aspects -- New York (State) -- New York Social structure -- New York (State) -- New York -- History Social classes -- New York (State) -- New York -- History Progressivism (United States politics) -- History HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development. City planning -- Political aspects City planning -- Social aspects Politics and government Progressivism (United States politics) Social classes Social structure SUBJECT Hell's Kitchen (New York, N.Y.) -- History New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091425 New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 1898-1951. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091432 Subject New York (State) -- New York New York (State) -- New York -- Hell's Kitchen Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781583673515 1583673512

  Permalink