Model City Blues Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven

Name: Model City Blues Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven
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ISBN: 9781592136049

ISBN-10: 1592136044

ISBN-13: 9781592136049

Edition: 2008

Authors: Mandi Isaacs Jackson, Mandi Jackson

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Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 5/18/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction


The Interstate and the Demonstration City: Master Planning and Maximum Feasible Participation


Contested Spaces in a Model City


Neighborhoods and Movement Spaces on the Ring Road Map


Mapping the Story



"The Ghosts of Oak Street's Paved Ravines": The Oak Street Project, the Construction of Public Consensus, and the Birth of a Slumless City


The Planning Tableau and the Experts' Dilemma


Creating Consensus and Illustrating Progress


The Progress Pavilion: "Watch the Picture Change!"


"Very Minimum" Dissent



On Dixwell Avenue: Civil Rights and the Street


The Mayor's Proposal


Two Dixwells, One Corner


A New Kind of Project


Taking the Street


Understanding the Avenue


Remaking "New Haven's Harlem"



The Hill Neighborhood Union and Freedom Summer North: Citizen Participation and Movement Spaces in a "Project Area"


The Hill


The Hill Neighborhood Union


The Hill Rent Strikes


The Freedom School


The Children's Park


Hill Cooperative Housing


The National Commission on Urban Problems: "Too Many People Are a Blighting Influence"



Maximum Feasible Urban Management: The "Automatic" City and the Hill Parents' Association


Hill Reconnaissance


A Particular Kind of "Model"


The Hill Parents' Association


Bracing for Summer



Renewal, Riot, and Resistance: Reclaiming "Model Cities"


The Riot


A "War Zone" on Congress Avenue


The Aftermath


Whose "Model Cities"?



The City and the Six-Lane Highway: Bread and Roses and Parking Garages


Bread and Roses


Unmasking the Ring Road


Route 34: "Like Blowing into a Hurricane"


The Language of Agitation


Public Rehearings


People Against the Garage


"You Can't Argue with Concrete"



Downtown Lives and Palaces: From "A Space of Freedom" to "A Space of Exclusion"


The Strand Hotel


The Park Plaza


Defining Home


"Clear a Space": Fighting for a Different Downtown


"Pulling Power, Buying Power, Growing Power"


Between the Strand and the Plaza


Conclusion: The "After"


Notes


Works Cited


Index