Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin

Name: Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin
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ISBN: 9780226005959

ISBN-10: 022600595X

ISBN-13: 9780226005959

Edition: 2011

Authors: Christopher Klemek

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The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewalexamines 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. With a sweep that encompasses New York, London, Berlin, Philadelphia, and Toronto, among others, Christopher Klemek traces changing responses to the challenging issues that most affected the lives of the world’s cities. In the postwar decades, the principles of modernist planning came to be challenged—in the grassroots revolts against the building of freeways through urban neighborhoods, for instance, or by academic critiques of slum clearance policy…

Book details

Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/21/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.91" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Final Frontier



Interlocking Foundations of the Urban Renewal Order



Atlantic Crossings of the Urban Renewal Order: From Interwar Berlin, via Wartime London, to Postwar Toronto



Assembling the Four Pillars: An Urban Renewal Order Takes Shape in the United States, 1934-65



Converging Critiques of the Urban Renewal Order



Aesthetic Critiques: The Urbanist Establishment Rediscovers the Old City



Policy Objections: Social Scientists Question the Urban Renewal Order



Outsider's Revolt: Jane Jacobs and Outright Rejection from beyond the Urbanist Establishment



The Transatlantic Collapse of the Urban Renewal Order



The First Wave of Resistance: Freeway Revolts



The Tide Shifts: Neighborhood Protectionism



A Bitter End? Self-Destruction by Democracy



Aftermath(s): Ideological Polarization and Political Struggle after the Fall of the Urban Renewal Order



New Left Urbanism vs. Neocon Urban Crisis: Divergent Intellectual Responses in the United States



The Anti-experts: Citizen Participation, Advocacy Planning, and the Urbanist Establishment



Nixon Urbanistes and "the Waterloo of Planning"



Softer Landings after the Fall: Divergent Legacies of the Urban Renewal Order


Conclusion: First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin


Appendix


Notes


Index