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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zipp, Samuel
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Urban renewal > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
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.