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Brooklyn: The Once and Future City Paperback – August 18, 2020

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An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to today

America'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 Brooklyn: The Once and Future City, Thomas J. Campanella tells the rich history of the rise, fall, and reinvention of one of the world’s most resurgent cities. Brooklyn-born Campanella recounts the creation of places familiar and long forgotten, bringing to life the individuals whose dreams, visions, rackets, and schemes forged the city we know today. He 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.

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552 pages
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English
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Princeton University Press
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August 18, 2020
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6.25 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
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0691208611
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978-0691208619
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"Winner of the PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers"

"Finalist with Special Recognition for the Brendan Gill Prize, Municipal Art Society of New York"

"Finalist for the On the Brinck Book Awards, The University of New Mexico"

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"A meticulously researched and information-filled chronicle of a place that, in its own way, defines New York City."―Paul Alexander, Washington Post

"Brooklyn has seen it all. Mr. Campanella, a native Brooklynite himself, brings both love and scholarship to his writing, revealing the true spirt of this fractured land."―The Economist

"An ambitious and accomplished book. For lovers of history and of the city, this book is a dream. It feels like a book that Campanella was born to write."―Nick Ripatrazone, The Millions

"Campanella’s book does a masterful job of showing how individual egos or ill-planned decisions of long ago set the stage for the city we know today."―Larry Getlen, New York Post

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Princeton University Press (August 18, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 552 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0691208611
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0691208619
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches

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- #31 in Brooklyn New York Travel Books
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- #15,886 in U.S. State & Local History

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A Magisterial Reflection

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2020

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For those of us who have Brooklyn in our DNA, some things began to go downhill when our city became part of New York in 1898. When you are growing up, and perhaps at all stages of one's life you may keep an eye on current events. But studying and digesting history requires insights and reflection. Brooklyn is larger than, or rather large as life. It has a literary and cultural mosaic that merits both scholarly and quotidian examination.

Professor Campanella explores myriad strands of the fabric of Brooklyn's economy, ethnicity, politics, architecture, and heavyweight personalities over a broad sweep of over 400 years. From tectonic battles over the shaping of the urban landscape to the destructive malaise of job losses and racial and cultural conflict, there are insightful observations on what happened and what might have turned out differently.

Despite the resurgence of some neighborhoods through the mixed blessings of gentrification, the author and this reader, cherish what is genuine, unpretentious and rooted in the hardworking world of our parents and grandparents. It's a heady mix of nostalgia and what has endured: like Prospect Park, an exceptional Library and Museum and celebrating periods of being center stage in the country's evolution.

There is plenty to savor here, whether you read footnotes and indexes or just ramble along. The author heads down some minor rabbit trails here and there that won't appeal to all of the audience, and you might or might not be helped by having a map on your lap. Overall, it is a fine and thoughtful treatise that doesn't take itself too seriously.

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Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2023

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Came fast and as promised.

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No Happy Beginning. No Happy Ending

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2024

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I bought this book to gain a deeper insight into the borough I call my home, thinking I'd come away with some hidden jewels and inspiration to take with me on my creative journey. This book essentially landed on me as a slow-motion highlight reel of white(identifying) colonial violence and its rebranded subsidiaries of progress, egalitarianism and prosperity. I struggled to take inspiration from it; mostly becauase the current status quo has been quietly but steadily championed for two generations now as the way of things, and a "natural" progression of the future. I myself am guilty of following the carrot. Toward the last few segments, I stopped emotionally blaming the author - he did a flashy, erudite job of chronicling the history of the borough (a quick rev-up in prehistoric times to near present-day) - who was not at fault for merely writing about what already was. It's just history; just happening now.

When some people speak of Brooklyn favorably, they often imply, effortlessly. the sanitized artifice of big tech, high-rise condos and a certian demographic-hegemony-as-epicenter of places that were once diverse is the sum totality of this place. Campanella (the author) himself laments this shift and dedicates the last portions of the book calling that out.

All told, this was a bracing read and it confirmed in long form what I obeserve and experience/intuit every day here. Objectively, this book is definitely for those who want a clear view of the history - from which there is no escape, only instruction - of a multifaceted, former city.

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2019

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Excellent, thorough and very well written!

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Fascinating Brooklyn!

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2020

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If your from Brooklyn, this book is a must. Incredibly dense and thorough history of the city/borough.

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2019

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Just a superb history of urban planning in Brooklyn

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Barrage of facts, yet felt unfinished

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2020

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Overall I liked to book.
I admire the author for what must have been mountains of documents he went though and ages he must had spent in the archives to pull so many facts and condense them into one book. Especially it hit the note with me reading about my very own Marine Park neighborhood; too many times I caught myself thinking "Oh, that's why those things are that way and not another". This was a really great read. Although, I going further deep into the book I could not shake off the feeling that the history of Brooklyn is really a history of screw ups. So many plans and visions did not see the light of day, yet very few that actually were implemented went sideways in the end. But I guess that's life.
I cannot say the reading was easy though, the author is prone to prolixity, while talking about some particular event the author mentions too many people and short facts of their biographies, albeit related to the event in question, but hardly critical. This waterfall of facts and names makes the book a rather challenging read.
The end was disappointing too, it ended in the 60es. Maybe because Brooklyn descended into slumber after that, but nonetheless I was expecting it to cover most recent history as well. The end felt much too abrupt.

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Harry P

Great Research

Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2020

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Amazing details about Brooklyn history

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