New York for sale : community planning confronts global real estate / Tom Angotti.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-281) and index.

Foreword. So what's community planning? / Peter Marcuse -- Chronology of major planning events in New York City -- 1. Community planning without displacement : strategies for progressive planning -- I. Understanding real estate and community -- 2. The real estate capital of the world -- 3. From dislocation to resistance : the roots of community planning -- II. Community planning stories -- 4. From protest to community plan -- 5. From environmental justice to community planning -- 6. Making the plans official -- 7. Community planning for the few -- III. The future of progressive community planning -- 8. Progressive directions for community planners.

"In New York for Sale, Tom Angotti tells some of the stories of community planning in New York City: how activists moved beyond simple protests and began to formulate community plans to protect neighborhoods against urban renewal, real estate mega-projects, gentrification, and environmental hazards. Angotti, both observer of and longtime participant in New York community planning, focuses on the close relationships among community planning, political strategy, and control over land. New York for Sale teaches the lesson that community plans can challenge market-driven development even in global cities with powerful real estate industries."--BOOK JACKET.