Main entry:

Jackson, Mandi Isaacs, 1977-

Title & Author:

Model city blues : urban space and organized resistance in New Haven / Mandi Isaacs Jackson.

Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.

Description:

xiv, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-270) and index.
"The Ghosts of Oak Street's Paved Ravines" -- On Dixwell Avenue: Civil Rights and the Street -- The Hill Neighborhood Union and Freedom Summer North: Citizen Participation and Movement Spaces in a "Project Area" -- Maximum Feasible Urban Management: The "Automatic" City and the Hill Parents' Association -- Renewal, Riot, and Resistance: Reclaiming "Model Cities" -- The City and the Six-Lane Highway: Bread and Roses and Parking Garages -- Downtown Lives and Palaces: From "A Space of Freedom" to "A Space of Exclusion."

Summary:

Model City Blues tells the story of how regular people, facing a changing city landscape, fought for their own model of the "ideal city" by creating grassroots plans for urban renewal. Filled with vivid descriptions of significant moments in a protracted struggle, it offers a street-level account of organized resistance to institutional plans to transform New Haven, Connecticut, in the 1960s. Anchored in the physical spaces and political struggles of the city, it brings back to center stage the individuals and groups who demanded that their voices be heard. --Publisher description.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9781592136032 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781592136049 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1592136036 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1592136044 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Urban renewal Connecticut New Haven History.
City and town life Connecticut New Haven History.
Rénovation urbaine Connecticut New Haven Histoire.
Vie urbaine Connecticut New Haven Histoire.
City and town life.
Urban renewal.
Stadtentwicklung
Connecticut New Haven.
Connecticut
USA.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256685
Call No.: BIB 187092
Status: Available