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Manhattan Projects
Samuel Zipp
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Description for Manhattan Projects
Paperback. In the two decades after World War II, New York was shaken by struggles over urban renewal. Manhattan Projects offers a fresh look at the history of those conflicts, showing how the idea of urban renewal was made and unmade as the state of the art technique for remaking cities. Num Pages: 496 pages, 76 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJP; HBJK; HBTB; JFSG; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 694.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199874057
SKU
V9780199874057
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About Samuel Zipp
Samuel Zipp is Assistant Professor of American Civilization and Urban Studies at Brown University.
Reviews for Manhattan Projects
Zipp masterfully demonstrates, though, that Manhattan Projects deserves to be surrounded by the best studies of the evolution of post-World War II urbanism, for it is surely one of them.
Eric J. Sandeen, Urban History
Eric J. Sandeen, Urban History