Jim Smith by Jim Smith
A firsthand account of the swift transformation of Williamsburg, from factory backwater to artists' district to trendy hub and high-rise colony
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is now so synonymous with hipster culture and the very idea of urban revitalization--so well-known from Chicago to Cambodia as the playground for the game of ironized status-seeking and lifestyle one-upmanship--that it's easy to forget how just a few years ago it was a very different neighborhood: a spread of factories, mean streets and ratty apartments that the rest of New York City feared and everyone but artists with nowhere else to go left alone.Robert Anasi hasn't forgotten. He moved to a $300-a-month apartment in Williamsburg in 1994, and watched as the area went through a series of surreal transformations: the warehouses became lofts, secret cocaine bars became sylized absinthe parlors, barrooms became stage sets for inde-rock careers and rents rose and rose--until the local artists found that their ideal of personal creativity had served the aims of global commerce, and that their neighborhood now belonged to someone else.
Tight, passionate, and provocative, The Last Bohemia is at once a celebration of the fever dream of bohemia, a lament for what Williamsburg has become and a cautionary tale about the lurching transformations of city neighborhoods throughout the United States.
Smith, Jim: -
Jim Smith played for Sheffield United, Aldershot, Halifax Town and Lincoln city. He was a player-manager at Boston United and has managed at Colchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Birmigham city, Oxford United, QPR, Newcastle United and Portsmouth. He was manager of Derby County until September 2001, having joined them in 1995. Bob Cass is an established football writer for The Mail on Sunday.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780233050553 |
| ISBN 10 | 0233050558 |
| Title | Jim Smith |
| Author | Jim Smith |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Welbeck Publishing Group |
| Year published | 2002-02-04 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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