Displaying gleaming new shopping centers and refurbished row houses, Harlem today bears little resemblance to the neighborhood of the midcentury Urban crisis.
In the post-World War II era, large-scale government-backed redevelopment drove the economic and physical transformati.
Brian Goldstein traces Harlem\'s widely noted "Second Renaissance" to a surprising source: the radical 1960s social movements that resisted city officials and fought to give Harlemites control of their own destiny.
Displaying gleaming new shopping centers and refurbished row houses, Harlem today bears little resemblance to the neighborhood of the midcentury Urban crisis