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Overview"Model City Blues tells the story of how regular people, facing a changing city landscape, fought for their own model of the ""ideal city"" by creating grassroots plans for urban renewal. Filled with vivid descriptions of significant moments in a protracted struggle, it offers a street-level account of organized resistance to institutional plans to transform New Haven, Connecticut in the 1960s. Anchored in the physical spaces and political struggles of the city, it brings back to center stage the individuals and groups who demanded that their voices be heard. By re-examining the converging class- and race-based movements of 1960s New Haven, Mandi Jackson helps to explain the city's present-day economic and political struggles. More broadly, by closely analyzing particular sites of resistance in New Haven, Model City Blues employs multiple academic disciplines to re-define and re-imagine the roles of everyday city spaces in building social movements and creating urban landscapes." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mandi Isaacs JacksonPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S. Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.404kg ISBN: 9781592136049ISBN 10: 1592136044 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 18 May 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of Contents"Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction The Interstate and the Demonstration City: Master Planning and Maximum Feasible Participation Contested Spaces in a Model City Neighborhoods and Movement Spaces on the Ring Road Map Oak Street Dixwell The Hill State Street Downtown Chapter 1--'The Ghosts of Oak Street's Paved Ravines:' The Oak Street Project, the Construction of Consensus, and the Birth of the Slumless City The Planning Tableau and the Experts' Dilemma Creating Consensus and Illustrating Progress The Progress Pavilion: ""Watch the Picture Change!"" ""Very Minimum"" Dissent Chapter 2-On Dixwell Avenue: Civil Rights and the Street The Mayor's Proposal Two Dixwells, One Corner A New Kind of Project Taking the Street Understanding the Avenue Remaking ""New Haven's Harlem"" Chapter 3: The Hill Neighborhood Union and Freedom Summer North: Citizen Participation and Movement Spaces in a 'Project Area' The Hill The Hill Neighborhood Union The Hill Rent Strikes The Freedom School The Children's Park Hill Cooperative Housing The National Commission on Urban Problems: ""Too Many People Are a Blighting Influence"" Chapter 4-- Maximum Feasible Urban Management: The ""Automatic"" City, and the Hill Parents Association Hill Reconnaissance A Particular Kind of ""Model"" The Hill Parents Association Bracing for Summer Chapter 5-Renewal, Riot, and Resistance: Reclaiming 'Model Cities' The Riot A ""War Zone"" on Congress Avenue The Aftermath Whose ""Model Cities""? Chapter 6-The City and the Six-Lane Highway: Bread & Roses and Parking Garages Bread & Roses Unmasking the Ring Road Route 34: ""Like Blowing Into a Hurricane"" The Language of Agitation Public Re-Hearings People Against the Garage ""You Can't Argue With Concrete"" Chapter 7-Downtown Lives and Palaces: From a 'Space of Freedom to a 'Space of Exclusion' The Strand Hotel The Park Plaza Defining Home ""Clear a Space:"" Fighting for a Different Downtown ""Pulling Power, Buying Power, Growing Power"" Between the Strand and the Plaza Conclusion: ""The After"" Works Cited Index"ReviewsModel City Blues breaks new ground reassessing New Haven politically through the lens of ethnographic and historic research. Through an urban context, Jackson synthesizes the cultural and economic foundations of past and future social movements. This book is the most impressive culmination of the most significant social and political research on New Haven in at least a generation. Immanuel Ness, Brooklyn College, City University of New York [Jackson's] case studies successfully emphasize the coalitions forged between residents and civil rights, anti-war, and union activists, among others, because the issues of affordable urban housing and accessible public spaces affected shared constituencies... Summing Up: Highly recommended.- April 2009 issue of Choice While the book examines a specific time and place--New Haven in the 1960s--it is also a powerful synecdoche for the fate of urban social policy more broadly. Nevertheless, the real strength of this book derives from the case study method. It is among the most subtle historical treatments available of the struggle for local control over decisions that affect urban communities. By focusing on one city and eschewing the standard historical narrative of the failure of the War on Poverty, Jackson provides a superlative account of how social policy unfolds in and transforms actual places--offices, coffee shops, homes, parks, taverns, school auditoriums, and city streets. The Journal of American History, Sept 2009 Model City Blues breaks new ground reassessing New Haven politically through the lens of ethnographic and historic research. Through an urban context, Jackson synthesizes the cultural and economic foundations of past and future social movements. This book is the most impressive culmination of the most significant social and political research on New Haven in at least a generation. Immanuel Ness, Brooklyn College, City University of New York [Jackson's] case studies successfully emphasize the coalitions forged between residents and civil rights, anti-war, and union activists, among others, because the issues of affordable urban housing and accessible public spaces affected shared constituencies... Summing Up: Highly recommended. - April 2009 issue of Choice While the book examines a specific time and place--New Haven in the 1960s--it is also a powerful synecdoche for the fate of urban social policy more broadly. Nevertheless, the real strength of this book derives from the case study method. It is among the most subtle historical treatments available of the struggle for local control over decisions that affect urban communities. By focusing on one city and eschewing the standard historical narrative of the failure of the War on Poverty, Jackson provides a superlative account of how social policy unfolds in and transforms actual places--offices, coffee shops, homes, parks, taverns, school auditoriums, and city streets. The Journal of American History, Sept 2009 Model City Blues breaks new ground reassessing New Haven politically through the lens of ethnographic and historic research. Through an urban context, Jackson synthesizes the cultural and economic foundations of past and future social movements. This book is the most impressive culmination of the most significant social and political research on New Haven in at least a generation. -Immanuel Ness, Brooklyn College, City University of New York Author InformationMandi Isaacs Jackson is a Visiting Assistant Professor in African-American Studies at Wesleyan University where she teaches courses in urban studies. 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