Manhattan projects : the rise and fall of urban renewal in cold war New York / Samuel Zipp.
Zipp, Samuel.
2010
HT177.N5 Z57 2010 (Mapit)
Available at General Collection

Items

Details

Title Manhattan projects : the rise and fall of urban renewal in cold war New York / Samuel Zipp.
Author Zipp, Samuel.
ISBN 9780199874057 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0199874050 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780195328745 (alk. paper)
0195328744 (alk. paper)
Publication Details Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Language English
Description xi, 469 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number HT177.N5 Z57 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 307.3/416097471
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
All Resources
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.

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export