South Bronx Economic Development Coordinating Committee (EDCC)
South East Bronx Community Organization (SEBCO)
Southeast Expressway
South End Urban Renewal Committee (SEURC)
Spielvogel, Sam
stagflation
Stainton, John
standard metropolitan statistical area (SMSA)
Starr, Roger
State and Local Assistance Act (1972)
steel
Stern, Robert A. M.
Stevens, Roger
Stevenson, Adlai
Stone, Edward Durell
Stonorov, Oskar
Straus, Jack I.
Stubbins, Hugh
Stull, Don
substandard structures
suburbs; Boston; cars and; Fair Share Housing; moving to; New Haven; New York; postwar growth of; shopping centers; see also specific suburbs
SUNY system
Supreme Court, U.S.; Regents of the University of California v. Bakke; Village of Euclid v. Ambler Reality
Sutton, Percy E.
Sviridoff, Doris
Sviridoff, Mitchell “Mike”
Sweden
Talbot, Allan
Taliaferro, Lee
Tavern Club, Boston
Tax Credit Act (1978)
taxes; Boston; income; LIHTC program and; New Haven; New York
Taylor, H. Ralph
technological innovation
television
Tennessee Valley Authority
textile industry
Thomas, Franklin
Thompson, Ben
Time
Tomorrow Is Here (pamphlet)
total plan
transportation; Boston; New Haven; New York; see also cars; highways; mass transit
trolleys
Truman, Harry S.
Turner, Chuck
Turner, Fred
“turnkey” housing program
Tuttle, Bill
Twin Parks, Bronx
UDC, see New York State Urban Development Corporation (UDC)
Ultan, Lloyd
unemployment
Unger, Barbara
United Auto Workers
United Construction Workers
United Federation of Teachers
United Fund
United Mine Workers
United Nations
United South End Settlements (USES)
U.S. Census of Housing
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
U.S. News and World Report
University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) program
Urban League
Urban Planning Aid (UPA)
urban renewal; Boston; bureaucracy; car and 52–59; Catholic Church and; changing role for specialized experts in; citizen input; common patterns; critics of; diverse community concept; Fair Share Housing; fast-tracking strategy; federal funding approach; in history; human renewal and; legacy of; as liberal project; Logue’s legacy in; masculine culture of; modernism and; Moreland Act Commission investigation; National Commission on Urban Problems hearings; as “Negro removal”; neighborhood renewal in Boston; network of experts in; new administrative structure; New Haven; New Town strategy; New York; of 1950s; Nixon cutbacks; pluralism and; private funding model; public-private funding approach; race and; redeveloper role; role of architects; role of planners; role of real estate developers; separation of functions; South Bronx; terminology; total plan; see also specific cities, states, agencies, policies, projects, and strategies
Urban Renewal Administration
Urban Renewal Committee of the American Municipal Association
Utica, New York
vacant plots
Vale, Lawrence
Velez, Ramon
veterans; mortgage loans
Victorian architecture
Vietnam War
Vilemas, Joe
Vogue
Von Eckardt, Wolf
von Hoffman, Nicholas
voucher program
Wald, Lillian
Wallace, George
Wallace, Henry
Wall Street Journal, The
War on Poverty
Washington, D.C.; Capital Park project
Washington Park Citizens Urban Renewal Action Committee (CURAC)
Washington Post, The
Wasserman, Joseph
Watergate scandal
Weaver, Robert C.; Negro Labor
Weese, Harry
welfare; reform
Welfare Island
Westchester, New York; Fair Share Housing
Wexler, Harry
White, Kevin
Whitehill, Walter Muir
Wicker, Tom
Wiener, Alan
Willkie, Wendell
Wilson, Malcolm
Winchester Repeating Arms Company
Winship, Tom
Winthrop, John
Wirtz, Willard
Wofford, Harris
Wolf, Peter
Wolfinger, Raymond
women; Logue’s views on; as Progressives; at UDC; in urban renewal; wives of redevelopers
Wood, John “Jack” E., Jr.
Woods, George
World Bank
World Federalist Movement
world’s fairs
World Trade Center
World War I
World War II; veterans
Wren, Christopher
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Wurster, Catherine Bauer
Wyandanch subsidized housing
Yale Architecture School
Yale Bowl
Yale Law School; legal realism at
Yale Political Union
Yale University; Corporation; labor practices; modernist architecture; racial and religious discrimination; urban renewal and
Yamasaki, Minoru
Yankee Stadium
Yard, Molly
Yardley, Jim
Yarmolinsky, Adam
Ylvisaker, Paul
Yoshimura, Junzo
Young, Whitney
Zeckendorf, William “Big Bill”
zoning; Nine Towns controversy
Zuccotti, John
ALSO BY LIZABETH COHEN
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939
A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lizabeth Cohen received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies at Harvard and a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. Until recently, she was dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. Previously, she taught at Oxford University, New York University, and Carnegie Mellon University. The author of many articles and essays, Dr. Cohen was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her first book Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939, which later won the Bancroft Prize and the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award. She is also the author of A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America and coauthor of the popular college and advanced-placement history textbook The American Pageant. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
DEDICATION
Introduction: Cities in Crisis
PART I: New Haven in the 1950s: Creating a Laboratory for Urban Renewal
1. The Making of an Urban Renewer
2. U
rban Renewal as a Liberal Project
3. Trouble Right Here in Model City
PART II: Boston in the 1960s: Rebuilding the City on the Hill
4. Sizing Up the Old Boston
5. Battling for a New Boston
6. Negotiating Neighborhoods
PART III: New York in the 1970s and 1980s: Winning and Losing an Empire in the Empire State
7. Constructing a “Great Society” in New York
8. From Fair Share to Belly-Up
9. Ashes to Gardens in the South Bronx
Conclusion: The End of a Life and an Era
PHOTOGRAPHS
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
ALSO BY LIZABETH COHEN
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
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