Manhattan Projects: The Rise And Fall Of Urban Renewal In Cold War New York Pdf Ebook ISBN-10 0195328744

Manhattan Projects: The Rise And Fall Of Urban Renewal In Cold War New York

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...

Hardcover: 488 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (May 24, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195328744
ASIN: B00DPODU2S
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 1.2 x 6.4 inches
Amazon Rank: 5929492
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I hold a passing interest in Urban Studies especially learning how Urban Renewal policies affected New York City. Manhattan Projects focuses on Manhattan ignoring the Outer-Boros but provides the reader with an excellent understanding how political, ...

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m--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.