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Recommended Readings

The following is a partial list of sources for the course Beyond and Between Pratt’s Gates, Spring 2021

Secondary Web Sources

Interactive Infographics, Blogs and Films about Urban Renewal

Journal Articles on Urban Renewal

  • Bendiner-Viani, Gabrielle. Art and Public History as Mediation at Seward Park’s Urban Renewal Area. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2018.
  • Bloom, Nicholas Dagen and Mathew Gordan Lasner. “Below Market Subsidized Housing Begins” in Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City, eds. Nicholas Dagen Bloom and Matthew Gordon Lasner. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2016 (35–70).
  • Christian, Pierre and Olivier Balez. Robert Moses: The Master Builder of New York City. London: Nobrow, 2018.
  • Chronopoulos, Themis. “Robert Moses and the Visual Dimension of Physical Disorder:
  • Efforts to Demonstrate Urban Blight in the Age of Slum Clearance.” Journal of Planning History, Vol. 13(3), 2014 (207–233).
  • Cohen, Lizabeth. “Learning Lessons from the Urban Renewal Era.” New York History, Vol.100 (2), 2020 (175–191).
  • Richard Plunz, A History of Housing in New York City. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1990.
  • Rowan, Jamin Creed. “Sidewalk Narratives, Tenement Narratives: Seeing Urban Renewal through the Settlement Movement.” Journal of Urban History 39, no.3, 2012 (392–410).
  • Joel Schwartz, The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urban Liberals, and the Redevelopment of the Inner City. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1993.
  • Tanaka, George. “Fiduciary Landlords: Life Insurers and Large-Scale Housing in New York City.” Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, 2017 (35–40).
  • Zipp, Samuel. “The Roots and Routes of Urban Renewal,” Journal of Urban History 39, no.3, 2012 (366–91).
  • Zipp, Samuel. Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Books on the History of Bedford Stuyvesant

  • Wilder, Craig Steven. Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000 (175–213).
  • Michael, Woodsworth. Battle for Bed-Stuy: The Long War on Poverty in New York City, (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016, Chapter 6, (201–235).

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