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Zipp, Samuel Taylor.

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Manhattan projects: Cold War urbanism in the age of urban renewal.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Manhattan projects: Cold War urbanism in the age of urban renewal./
作者:	Zipp, Samuel Taylor.
面頁冊數:	609 p.
附註:	Adviser: Jean-Christophe Agnew.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-04A.
標題:	American Studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3214338
ISBN:	9780542658303

Manhattan projects: Cold War urbanism in the age of urban renewal.
Zipp, Samuel Taylor.

Manhattan projects: Cold War urbanism in the age of urban renewal. - 609 p.

Adviser: Jean-Christophe Agnew.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2006.

This dissertation investigates the politics and culture of urban renewal in Manhattan in the twenty years after World War II. I focus on the ways that superblock planning and modernist architecture remade the cityscape of the postwar city and were themselves remade by resistance to their overweening imposition on the lives of ordinary New Yorkers. More than just a set of national or municipal policies, urban renewal in New York is best understood as a highly contested cultural vision, one that was shaped by its interactions with the political culture of the domestic Cold War. Specifically, I look at four iconic postwar sites---the United Nations Headquarters complex, Metropolitan Life's middle-income housing development Stuyvesant Town, the vast belts of public housing in East Harlem, and the Lincoln Square renewal area that included Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts---and show how they were physically and culturally constructed as agents and emblems of urban transformation. I explain how they were pitched as cures for urban obsolescence, depicted as symbols of a new city, and received by New Yorkers as reorderings of the fundamental experience of city life.

ISBN: 9780542658303Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

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