Manhattan projects : the rise and fall of urban renewal in cold war New York / / Samuel Zipp

• Autore: Zipp Samuel
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (916 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.3/416097471
• Soggetto topico: Urban renewal - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Social conditions 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Part I: United Nations; 1. Clearing the Slum Called War; Part II: Stuyvesant Town; 2. Remaking the Ethic of City Rebuilding; 3. The Mass Home in the Middle-Class Cityscape; Part III: Lincoln Square; 4. Culture and Cold War in the Making of Lincoln Center; 5. The Battle of Lincoln Square; Part IV: East Harlem; 6. Cold War Public Housing in the Age of Urban Renewal; 7. Confronting the "Mass Way of Life"; Conclusion: Under the Sign of the White Cross; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Manhattan projects
• ISBN: 0-19-977953-8; 0-19-975070-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247986403316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno