South Bronx Rising The Rise Fall And Resurrection Of An American City Jill Jonnes Nilka Martell by Jill Jonnes; Nilka Martell 9781531501235, 1531501230 instant download after payment.

Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough—ravaged in the 1970s and ’80s by disinvestment and fires, then heroically revived and rebuilt in the 1990s by community activists—Jill Jonnes returns to chronicle the ongoing revival of the South Bronx. Though now globally renowned as the birthplace of hip-hop, the South Bronx remains America’s poorest urban congressional district. In this new edition, we meet the present generation of activists who are transforming their communities with the arts and greening, notably the restoration of the Bronx River. For better or worse, real estate investors have noticed, setting off new gentrification struggles.

An updated edition of Jill Jonnes's urban history classic on the rise, fall, and rebirth of the south Bronx; now covering the post-2000 rush of real estate development and the crisis of gentrification, the gains by activists and volunteer organizations like the Bronx River Alliance, and the devastation wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic