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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Zipp, Samuel, author.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 469 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Urban renewal -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century. Social conditions Urban renewal. Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century. New York (State) -- New York. New York (State) -- New York -- Manhattan. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11219194

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ISBN:	9780199750702 019975070X 9780195328745 0195328744
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Zipp, Samuel. Manhattan projects. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010 9780195328745

Table of Contents:

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.