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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zipp, Samuel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban renewal--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Urban renewal.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.).

Physical Description:

xi, 469 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780195328745 (hbk. : alk. paper)

0195328744 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

456181214