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Brooklyn: The Once
and Future City
EBOOK
Description
An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people
who made them, from the early seventeenth century to todayAmerica'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 unearths long-lost threads of the urban past, telling
the rich history of the rise, fall, and reinvention of one of the world’s most resurgent cities.Spanning
centuries and neighborhoods, Brooklyn-born Campanella recounts the creation of places familiar
and long forgotten, both built and never realized, bringing to life the individuals whose dreams,
visions, rackets, and schemes forged the city we know today. He takes us through Brooklyn’s
history as homeland of the Leni Lenape and its transformation by Dutch colonists into a dense
slaveholding region. We learn about English émigré Deborah Moody, whose town of Gravesend
was the first founded by a woman in America. We see how wanderlusting Yale dropout Frederick
Law Olmsted used Prospect Park to anchor an open space system that was to reach back to
Manhattan. And we witness Brooklyn’s emergence as a playland of racetracks and amusement
parks celebrated around the world.Campanella also describes Brooklyn’s outsized failures, from
Samuel Friede’s bid to erect the world’s tallest building to the long struggle to make Jamaica Bay
the world’s largest deepwater seaport, and the star-crossed urban renewal, public housing, and
highway projects that battered the borough in the postwar era. Campanella 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.