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Title: MANHATTAN PROJECTS
THE RISE AND FALL OF URBAN RENEWAL IN COLD WAR NEW YORK
By: Samuel Zipp
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0199874050
ISBN 13: 9780199874057
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
Pub. date: 29 February, 2012
Pages: 496
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: In a book praised by Times Literary Supplement as "richly detailed and thoughtfully written" and by Wall Street Journal as "compelling," Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of 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 visions, attacking urban renewal for perpetuating deindustrialization, racial segregation, and class division, for uprooting thousands, and for implanting a new, alienating cityscape. Urban renewal was not merely a failed planning ideal, Zipp concludes, but also a crucial phase in the transformation of New York into a world city, but one mired in urban crisis. The book won Honorable Mention for the Ellis W. Hawley Prize of the Organization of American Historians.
Illustrations: 76 halftones
Publication: US
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Returns: Returnable
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