Manhattan Projects

The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-987405-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 708 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Urban history, New York history, urban studies, postwar US history, Cold War history

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zipp, Samuel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part I: United Nations
1. Clearing the Slum Called War
Part II: Stuyvesant Town
2. Remaking the Ethic of City Rebuilding
3. Th e Mass Home in the Middle-Class Cityscape
Part III: Lincoln Square
4. Culture and Cold War in the Making of Lincoln Center
5. Th e Battle of Lincoln Square
Part IV: East Harlem
6. Cold War Public Housing in the Age of Urban Renewal
7. Confronting the "Mass Way of Life"
Conclusion: Under the Sign of the White Cross
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Zipp, Samuel
Samuel Zipp is Assistant Professor of American Civilization and Urban Studies at Brown University.

Samuel Zipp is Assistant Professor of American Civilization and Urban Studies at Brown University.