Manhattan Projects: The Rise And Fall Of Urban Renewal In Cold War New York - Tapa blanda

Zipp, Samuel

 
9780199874057: Manhattan Projects: The Rise And Fall Of Urban Renewal In Cold War New York
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ISBN 10: 0199874050 ISBN 13: 9780199874057
Editorial: Oxford University Press, Usa, 2012

Sinopsis

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.

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

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Editorial
Oxford University Press, Usa
Año de publicación
2012
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0199874050
ISBN 13 
9780199874057
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Número de páginas
496
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