The transatlantic collapse of urban renewal : postwar urbanism from New York to Berlin
Examines how postwar thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic considered urban landscapes radically changed by the political and physical realities of sprawl, urban decay, and urban renewal. This title traces changing responses to the challenging issues that most affected the lives of the world's cities.
Print Book, English, 2011
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2011
History
x, 315 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9780226441740, 9780226005959, 0226441741, 022600595X
666234981
<h3>Contents</h3> <pre> Acknowledgments....................................................................................................................ix Introduction: The Final Frontier...................................................................................................1 I. Interlocking Foundations of the Urban Renewal Order.............................................................................17 1. Atlantic Crossings of the Urban Renewal Order: From Interwar Berlin, via Wartime London, to Postwar Toronto.....................21 2. Assembling the Four Pillars: An Urban Renewal Order Takes Shape in the United States, 1934-65...................................48 II. Converging Critiques of the Urban Renewal Order................................................................................79 3. Aesthetic Critiques: The Urbanist Establishment Rediscovers the Old City........................................................83 4. Policy Objections: Social Scientists Question the Urban Renewal Order...........................................................102 5. Outsider's Revolt: Jane Jacobs and Outright Rejection from beyond the Urbanist Establishment....................................109 III. The Transatlantic Collapse of the Urban Renewal Order.........................................................................129 6. The First Wave of Resistance: Freeway Revolts...................................................................................133 7. The Tide Shifts: Neighborhood Protectionism.....................................................................................143 8. A Bitter End? Self-Destruction by Democracy.....................................................................................161 IV. Aftermath(s): Ideological Polarization and Political Struggle after the Fall of the Urban Renewal Order........................175 9. New Left Urbanism vs. Neocon Urban Crisis: Divergent Intellectual Responses in the United States................................179 10. The Anti-experts: Citizen Participation, Advocacy Planning, and the Urbanist Establishment.....................................187 11. Nixon Urbanistes and "the Waterloo of Planning"................................................................................202 12. Softer Landings after the Fall: Divergent Legacies of the Urban Renewal Order..................................................217 Conclusion: First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin...........................................................................239 Appendix...........................................................................................................................249 Notes..............................................................................................................................255 Index..............................................................................................................................299 </pre>