Status
Available
Call number
Call number
974.71 ZI
Genres
Collection
Publication
Oxford University Press (2012), Edition: Illustrated, 469 pages
Description
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 modernit
Language
Original language
English
ISBN
0199874050 / 9780199874057