Manhattan Projects
The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 10 June 2010
- ISBN 9780195328745
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages488 pages
- Size 236x163x32 mm
- Weight 858 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 65 illustrations 0
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Short 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.
MoreLong description:
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.
The books presents richly detailed and thoughtfully written studies of four renewal projects, all located in Manhattan and all of which represent, for Zipp, New York's attempt to position itself internationally while solving perplexing social, economic and physical problems at home and furthering Cold War ideological interests abroad.
