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Cover: 9781469633060 | The Dying City | Postwar New York and the Ideology of Fear | Buch
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The Dying City
Postwar New York and the Ideology of Fear
Taschenbuch von Brian L. Tochterman
Sprache: Englisch

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In this eye-opening cultural history, Brian Tochterman examines competing narratives that shaped post–World War II New York City. As a sense of crisis rose in American cities during the 1960s and 1970s, a period defined by suburban growth and deindustrialization, no city was viewed as in its death throes more than New York. Feeding this narrative of the dying city was a wide range of representations in film, literature, and the popular press — representations that ironically would not have been produced if not for a city full of productive possibilities as well as challenges. Tochterman reveals how elite culture producers, planners and theorists, and elected officials drew on and perpetuated the fear of death to press for a new urban vision.

It was this narrative of New York as the dying city, Tochterman argues, that contributed to a burgeoning and broad anti-urban political culture hostile to state intervention on behalf of cities and citizens. Ultimately, the author shows that New York’s decline — and the decline of American cities in general — was in part a self-fulfilling prophecy bolstered by urban fear and the new political culture nourished by it.
In this eye-opening cultural history, Brian Tochterman examines competing narratives that shaped post–World War II New York City. As a sense of crisis rose in American cities during the 1960s and 1970s, a period defined by suburban growth and deindustrialization, no city was viewed as in its death throes more than New York. Feeding this narrative of the dying city was a wide range of representations in film, literature, and the popular press — representations that ironically would not have been produced if not for a city full of productive possibilities as well as challenges. Tochterman reveals how elite culture producers, planners and theorists, and elected officials drew on and perpetuated the fear of death to press for a new urban vision.

It was this narrative of New York as the dying city, Tochterman argues, that contributed to a burgeoning and broad anti-urban political culture hostile to state intervention on behalf of cities and citizens. Ultimately, the author shows that New York’s decline — and the decline of American cities in general — was in part a self-fulfilling prophecy bolstered by urban fear and the new political culture nourished by it.
Über den Autor
Brian Tochterman is assistant professor of sustainable community development at Northland College.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781469633060
ISBN-10: 146963306X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Tochterman, Brian L.
Hersteller: The University of North Carolina Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Brian L. Tochterman
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.06.2017
Gewicht: 0,504 kg
Artikel-ID: 102732963
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