!["A fascinating history of an important historic neighborhood and a provocative analysis of the ways in which interest groups vie for control of urban geography."
—Tyler Anbinder, author, Five Points](http://web.archive.org./web/20140203191940im_/http://monthlyreview.org/press/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/pb3485-125x187.jpg)
Hell’s Kitchen and the Battle for Urban Space
Class Struggle and Progressive Reform in New York City, 1894-1914
Hell’s Kitchen is among Manhattan’s most storied and studied neighborhoods. A working-class district situated next to the West Side’s middle- and upper-class residential districts, it has long attracted the focus of artists and urban planners, writers and reformers. Now, Joseph Varga takes us on a tour of Hell’s Kitchen with an eye toward what we usually take for granted: space, and, particularly, how urban spaces are produced, controlled, and contested by different class and political forces. … | more |