Planning for the Lower East Side / by 347098 Schwartz, Harry

Life on the Lower East Side / by 418431 Lepkoff, Rebeccc, Dans, Peter E., Wasserman, Suzanne

A redevelopment plan for the central section of the Lower East Side of Manhattan by Candeub, Isadore

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Neighborhood responses to abandonment & gentrification : a case study of the Lower East Side by Chanda, Shampa

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A Geography of Cultures: Or, Why New York’s Lower East Side Is an Important Case Study by Mario MAFFI

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The Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Interpretando experiencias históricas de inmigrantes para iluminar el presente desde el respeto / The Lower East Side Tenement Museum.... by Alfredo Llopico

“…The Lower East Side Tenement Museum narra historias de inmigrantes que en el Lower East Side de Manhattan comenzaron sus vidas de nuevo entre los siglos XIX y XXI a través de la recreación de la que fue su trayectoria vital en apartamentos y negocios de familias reales en un edificio de viviendas histórico que albergó a más de 15.000 inmigrantes de clase trabajadora de más de 20 naciones mientras sirvió como vivienda. …”
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Le Yiddishland newyorkais: la mémoire enracinée (The Yiddishland New Yorker: the Ingrained Memory) by Annie Ousset-Krief

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Film-Review: Blank City by Thomas Ballhausen

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Unterzakhn, Dirty Laundry, and the Map of Lost New York: An Interview with Leela Corman by Jaime Cleland

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Challenging “La Vie Bohème”: Community, Subculture, and Queer Temporality in Rent by Eleonora Sammartino

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Rock Clubs and Gentrification in New York City: The Case of The Bowery Presents by Fabian Holt

“…The argument is developed through a case study of The Bowery Presents, a now dominant concert promoter and venue operator with offices on the Lower East Side. Based on fieldwork conducted over a three-year period and on urban sociological macro-level analysis, this article develops an analytical narrative to account for the evolution of the contemporary concert culture in the mid-size venues of The Bowery Presents on the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as a particular instance of more general dynamics of culture and commerce in contemporary cities. …”
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The Immortalists / by Benjamin, Chloe, author

“…It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. …”

Processing "Alphabet City" in Abraham Cahan's Yekl. A Tale of the New York Ghetto (1896) by Nicola Maurizio Strazzanti

“…By means of a highly sophisticated articulation of racialized dialogue, Cahan fictionalizes a series of socio-cultural issues: the settlement of an eastern European community in New York City, the linguistic configuration of the Lower East Side at that time, and in general the ways in which the United States inform and deform immigrants’ attitudes towards life in an alien society. …”
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Bath house : corporeal consciousness & the permeability of space by Maheras, Aspasia S. (Aspasia Susanna)

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Hybrid processes: technological integration as an actant of the design project by Francesca Ciampa

“…The experiment conducted in the Lower East Side of Manhattan reveals, through participatory tools, the prefiguration of hybrid spaces resulting from the network of links established by technology as a hybrid and integrated actor within relationships between subjects of the design process.…”
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Ciudades libres: La dramaturgia subterránea del Off-Off Broadway Neoyorquino en los años sesenta by Ana Fernández-caparrós Turina

“…During the Sixties there were a series of social, cultural, political and economic factors that led to the emergence of an underground theatre movement localized in New York's Greenwich Village and Lower East Side. This counter-cultural theatre was born under very specific historical conditions, (coinciding with the rise of the Civil Right's movement, the emergence of youth culture, etc.), and it only lasted for several years. …”
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L’enfant pauvre et la naissance de la photographie sociale aux États-Unis au XIXe siècle by Anne LESME

“…However influenced by a middle-class vision of the Lower East Side’s children, Jacob Riis’s photographs contributed to bring a new perception of poverty in line with a child who was from that time perceived as innocent by a large part of society. …”
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Visions of the True West : Sam Shepard, identity and myth by Tarancón de Francisco, Juan Antonio

“…Ever since Sam Shepard began his career on the Off-Off Broadway theatre scene of the mid-sixties, he managed to combine the formal experimentation and the contesting attitude expected from a celebrity brewed in the cafés of New York’s Lower East Side with a unique personal imagery that invoked popular-culture icons. …”
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Whitening Domestic Spaces: Enacting Female Roles in Anzia Yezierska's The Lost Beautifulness by Rebeca Campos Ferreras

“…Located in New York’s Lower East Side ghetto and determined by their Jewish background, these immigrants’ arrival caused them a cultural shock to the point that they started shaping their identities according to the new standard of beauty and cleanliness related to the Americanness they were eager to perform. …”
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Within the Ruins of New York City: No Wave as a Paradigm of American Independent Cinema by Maria Teresa Soldani

“…They defined the first recognizable entity of a distinctive film culture.The essay is developed in the following steps with reference to several case studies: 1) New York City, 1975-1980: Downtown VS Uptown; 2) The Downtown Music Scene; 3) The Scene in the Ruins as a Space at Multiple Speeds; 4) Living Forward the Present, Activating the Past; 5) No Wave as a Paradigm of American Independent Cinema.In the ruined and rundown Lower East Side, No Wave represented a break-out phenomenon and became the outset of the American Independent Cinema. …”
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