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Manhattan projects : the rise and fall of urban renewal in cold war New York / Samuel Zipp.
Zipp, Samuel.
2010
HT177.N5 Z57 2010 (Mapit)
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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