Greater New Jersey: Living in the Shadow of Gotham (Metropolitan Portraits)

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Living within the influence of one of the most largest and most important cities on the planet, how does New Jersey define itself? Is it simply a region of commuters, or have communities created effective local governments and satisfying cultural activities for one of the most largest and most diverse populations in the country? In the state with the country’s densest population, the region referred to as North Jersey has sacrificed more than thirty percent of its land area to the vast web of roads and highways that carry more than 300,000 commuters to work in New York. “Greater New Jersey” probes challenges posed to the identity of New Jersey by the New York-centered mass media, professional sports, and organized crime families, At the same time as examining pressures internal to the state itself, including atypical social diversity, high population density, fragmented governments, extensive political corruption, and diminishing land and natural resources. “Greater New Jersey” sets itself except for other works about the state by virtue of the scope of its inquiry. At the same time as up to date in outlook, the book underscores the role of history in shedding light on the Manhattan and New Jersey of today. Dennis E. Gale examines the complex interactions that knit together a region that has dual citizenship and argues that northern New Jersey is undergoing a gradual transformation to grow to be symbolic of a new roughly suburban area, one that borrows culture, image, and economy from a metropolis but also maintains the day-to-day living patterns of heartland The usa in the face of rapid social change. Readers interested in the puzzling intricacies of modern life will find much to interest them in this account of a regional identity asserting itself in the face of a looming megalopolis.

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