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Manhattan Projects - The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York (Paperback)
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Manhattan Projects - The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York (Paperback)
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In a book praised by Times Literary Supplement as "richly detailed
and thoughtfully written" and by Wall Street Journal as
"compelling," Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of
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 visions, attacking urban renewal for
perpetuating deindustrialization, racial segregation, and class
division, for uprooting thousands, and for implanting a new,
alienating cityscape. Urban renewal was not merely a failed
planning ideal, Zipp concludes, but also a crucial phase in the
transformation of New York into a world city, but one mired in
urban crisis. The book won Honorable Mention for the Ellis W.
Hawley Prize of the Organization of American Historians.
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