Manhattan projects : the rise and fall of urban renewal in cold war New York
Title:
Manhattan projects : the rise and fall of urban renewal in cold war New York
Author:
Zipp, Samuel, author.
ISBN:
9780199750702
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Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 469 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents:
Clearing the slum called war -- Remaking the ethic of city rebuilding -- The mass home in the middle-class cityscape -- Culture and cold war in the making of Lincoln Center -- The battle of Lincoln Square -- Cold war public housing in the age of urban renewal -- Confronting the "mass way of life" -- Conclusion: under the sign of the white cross.
Abstract:
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.
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