Main entry:

Klemek, Christopher.

Title & Author:

The transatlantic collapse of urban renewal : postwar urbanism from New York to Berlin / Christopher Klemek.

Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Description:

x, 315 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Historical studies of urban America

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9780226441740 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226441741 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780226005959
022600595X

Subject:

Urban renewal North America History 20th century.
Urban renewal Europe History 20th century.
City planning North America History 20th century.
City planning Europe History 20th century.
Urban policy North America History 20th century.
Urban policy Europe History 20th century.
Rénovation urbaine Amérique du Nord Histoire 20e siècle.
Rénovation urbaine Europe Histoire 20e siècle.
Politique urbaine Amérique du Nord Histoire 20e siècle.
Politique urbaine Europe Histoire 20e siècle.
City planning.
Urban policy.
Urban renewal.
Stadtsanierung
Städtebau
Europe.
North America.
Nordamerika
Europa

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Historical studies of urban America.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 273444
Call No.: BIB 207077
Status: Available