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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Samuel Zipp (Assistant Professor of American Civilization and Urban Studies, Assistant Professor of American Civilization and Urban Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.858kg ISBN: 9780195328745ISBN 10: 0195328744 Pages: 488 Publication Date: 10 June 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Introdution Part I: United Nations 1. Clearing the Slum Called War Part II: Stuyvesant Town 2. Remaking the Ethic of City Rebuilding 3. The Mass Home in the Middle-Class Cityscape Part III: Lincoln Square 4. Culture and Cold War in the Making of Lincoln Center 5. The Battle of Lincoln Square Part IV: East Harlmen 6. Cold War Public Housing in the Age of Urgan Renewal 7. Confronting the ""Mass Way of Life"" Conclusion: Under the Sign of the White Cross Notes Index"ReviewsThe 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. Robert A. Beauregard, Times Literary Supplement <br> Zipp offers a fresh perspective on this dispiriting tale. Unlike many of his scholarly predecessors, who regarded the anti-urban agenda of policy makers as a given (why else would they have so destroyed our cities?), Mr. Zipp tells his story from the point of view of policy makers who loved cities and who thought they were making a 'benevolent intervention'...compelling...[an] absorbing account. --Wall Street Journal<br> Giving projects built by Robert Moses and the New York City Housing Authority their due, Professor Zipp argues that urban renewal cannot be measured merely by the number of structures that were bulldozed or built. Rather, he makes a convincing case that the policy also transformed 'the terms by which cities were understood' and recast debates over 'the impacts of modernism, progress, public and private power, and cold war ideology on culture, politics and social life.' --New York Times<br>In prose that balances academic rigor and storytelling Mr. Zipp makes his Author InformationSamuel Zipp is Assistant Professor of American Civilization and Urban Studies at Brown University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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