List of Figures

xi

List of Plates

xiii

List of Tables

xv

Preface

xvii

Executive Summary

xxi

Acknowledgments

xxxi

Chapter 1: Introduction

1

1.1. Setting the Stage

1

1.2. The Problem

8

1.3. The Setting (Interpretive View)

9

Chapter 2:
Looking Beyond the Blighted Surface:
The Gaze of Redevelopment and the Immigrants' Milieu

15

2.1. Introduction

15

2.2. Blight and the Gaze of Redevelopment

16

2.3. Place and the Immigrants' Milieu

19

2.4. The Gaze and the Immigrants' Milieu

22

2.5. Tracing the Lineage of Redevelopment

25

2.6. Conclusion

40

Chapter 3:
Conceptual Framework

43

3.1. Introduction

43

3.2. Development of the Conceptual Framework

51