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

The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal: Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin - Paperback

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The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal: Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin
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The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal: Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin - Paperback

The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal: Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin - Paperback

by Christopher Klemek
$59.40
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Book Overview

by Christopher Klemek (Author)

The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal 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. 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 agendas--and then began to collapse entirely. Over the 1960s, several alternative views of city life emerged among neighborhood activists, New Left social scientists, and neoconservative critics. Ultimately, while a pessimistic view of urban crisis may have won out in the United States and Great Britain, Klemek demonstrates that other countries more successfully harmonized urban renewal and its alternatives. Thismuch anticipated book provides one of the first truly international perspectives on issues central to historians and planners alike, making it essential reading for anyone engaged with either field.

Author Biography

Christopher Klemek is assistant professor in the Department of History at George Washington University.

Number of Pages: 328
Dimensions: 0.8 x 9 x 5.9 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: September 21, 2012
ISBN9780226005959
Author Christopher Klemek
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
GenreNews & politics, History, and Design
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2012
LanguageENG- English
Pages328
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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