The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem, Expanded Edition

An acclaimed history of Harlem’s journey from urban crisis to urban renaissance

With its gleaming shopping centers and refurbished row houses, today’s Harlem bears little resemblance to the neighborhood of the midcentury urban crisis. Brian Goldstein traces Harlem’s Second Renaissance to a surprising source: the radical social movements of the 1960s that resisted city officials and fought to give Harlemites control of their own destiny. Young Harlem activists, inspired by the civil rights mo...