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Item Details
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MANHATTAN PROJECTS
THE RISE AND FALL OF URBAN RENEWAL IN COLD WAR NEW YORK |
| By: |
Samuel Zipp |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£29.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195328744 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195328745 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
24 May, 2010 |
| Pages: |
488 |
| Description: |
In the two decades after World War II, New York was shaken by struggles over urban renewal. Manhattan Projects offers a fresh look at the history of those conflicts, showing how the idea of urban renewal was made and unmade as the state of the art technique for remaking cities. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
65 illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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