Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Terry WilliamsSeries:Cosmopolitan LifePublish date:2024-02-06Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231177931ISBN-10:231177933UPC:9780231177931Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, Poverty & HomelessnessBook Topic:UrbanSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCWDXHF68H
Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York
Aboveground, Manhattan's Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, disused for decades, where over the years unhoused people took shelter. The sociologist Terry Williams ventured into the tunnel residents' world, seeking to understand life on the margins and out of sight. He visited the tunnels between West...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231177931ISBN-10:231177933UPC:9780231177931Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, Poverty & HomelessnessBook Topic:UrbanSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCWDXHF68H
Terry Williams is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the New School for Social Research. His previous Columbia University Press books are The Con Men: Hustling in New York City (2015); Teenage Suicide Notes: An Ethnography of Self-Harm (2017); Le Boogie Woogie: Inside an After-Hours Club (2020); and The Soft City: Sex for Business and Pleasure in New York City (2022).
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