A History of Housing in New York City. Revised edition

Title: A History of Housing in New York City. Revised edition Publisher: Columbia University Press. 2016. ISBN: 9780231178358 The Brownstone houses in Brooklyn, the old Tenements in the Lower East Side, the high-end residential apartments in the Upper East Side, the continuous urban fabric int he Greenwich Village or the residential buildings or condos. Shortly after arriving in New York, I started to question myself about the collective housing in the city, its density, quality of the spaces, gentrification, or social inequality. Topics that, from an economic, urban and sociological perspective shape its domesticity. New York is an extreme city without any comparison in the United States, Europe, or Asia. Its strong capitalist economy, its globalization, and multiracial society collide with a specific geographical and urban form that creates a tension between the collective and individual space. Las casas Brownstone en Brooklyn, los antiguos Tenements del Lower East Side , los apartamentos residenciales exclusivos en el Upper East Side , el tejido residencial continuo en el Greenwich Village o los nuevos edificios residenciales o condominios. Al poco de comenzar a vivir en Nueva York, uno comienzo a hacerse preguntas en torno a la vivienda colectiva en la ciudad, a su densidad, calidad de los espacios, gentrificación o desigualdad social. Temas que desde un punto de vista urbano, económico y sociológico conforman su domesticidad. Nueva York es una ciudad extrema, sin ningún tipo de paralelismo en Estados Unidos, Europa o Asia. Su fuerte economía capitalista, su globalización y sociedad multirracial se confrontan con una forma geográfica y urbana y tensan al máximo la relación entre el espacio colectivo y el individual. “By 1880, only three decades later, the cityscape had already changed to a degree unimagined at the beginning of the century.