Housing Policy and Vulnerable Families in The Inner City

Brigitte Zamzow is research associate and lecturer at Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. She teaches seminars on Slum Clearance and Urban Renewal with a strong emphasis on post-modernist thinking. During a research stay in Amman, Jordan, she studied the societal implications of modernization on an a-typical Arab City. She has stayed in New York City several times and continues her ethnographic research in this field. Her MA thesis won the DGS (German Association for Sociology) prize for outstanding theses and is the groundwork to this book. Overcoming racial and social inequality remains the focus of all her work. Her educational background lies in cultural studies, development studies and sociology.

• 1. The Status Quo: Observations on a Gentrified Harlem.- 2. Rise and Fall: Harlem Renaissance and Ghettoization.- 3. Urban Poverty in Theory.- 4. Public Housing.- 5. Listening to Harlem: Tenants, Activists, Experts.- Conclusion: Understanding Harlem: The Making of a Mixed-Income Neighbo.