Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in the decades after World War II. Focusing on four iconic Manhattan projects --the United Nations building, Stuyvesant Town, Lincoln Center, and the great swaths of public housing in East Harlem--Zipp unearths a host of forgotten stories and characters that flesh out the conventional history of urban renewal. He shows how boosters hoped to make Manhattan the capital of modernity and a symbol of American power, but even as the builders executed their plans, a chorus of critics revealed the dark side of those Cold War visions, attacking urban renewal for perpetuating deindustrialization, racial segregation, and class division; for uprooting thousands, and for implanting a new, alienating cityscape. Cold War-era urban renewal was not merely a failed planning ideal, Zipp concludes, but also a crucial phase in the transformation of New York into both a world city and one mired in urban crisis.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN-13
9780199874057
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113866071
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Urban Planning
Author
Samuel Zipp
Publication Name
Manhattan Projects: the Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Item Weight
694g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Samuel Zipp
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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