{"product_id":"model-city-blues-urban-space-and-organized-resistance-in-new-haven-9781592136032","title":"Model City Blues: Urban Space and Organized","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eModel City Blues tells the story of how regular people, facing a changing city landscape, fought for their own model of the \\u201cideal city\\u201d by creating grassroots plans for urban renewal. Filled with vivid descriptions of significant moments in a protracted struggle, it offers a street-level account of organized resistance to institutional plans to transform New Haven, Connecticut in the 1960s. Anchored in the physical spaces and political struggles of the city, it brings back to center stage the individuals and groups who demanded that their voices be heard. By reexamining the converging class- and race-based movements of 1960s New Haven, Mandi Jackson helps to explain the city's present-day economic and political struggles. More broadly, by closely analyzing particular sites of resistance in New Haven, Model City Blues employs multiple academic disciplines to redefine and reimagine the roles of everyday city spaces in building social movements and creating urban landscapes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Model City Blues breaks new ground reassessing New Haven politically through the lens of ethnographic and historic research. Through an urban context, Jackson synthesizes the cultural and economic foundations of past and future social movements. This book is the most impressive culmination of the most significant social and political research on New Haven in at least a generation.\" -Immanuel Ness, Brooklyn College, City University of New York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction The Interstate and the Demonstration City: Master Planning and Maximum Feasible Participation Contested Spaces in a Model City Neighborhoods and Movement Spaces on the Ring Road Map          Oak Street         Dixwell         The Hill             State Street             Downtown  Chapter 1--'The Ghosts of Oak Street's Paved Ravines:' The Oak Street Project, the Construction of Consensus, and the Birth of the Slumless City     The Planning Tableau and the Experts' Dilemma     Creating Consensus and Illustrating Progress     The Progress Pavilion: \"Watch the Picture Change!\"     \"Very Minimum\" Dissent  Chapter 2-On Dixwell Avenue: Civil Rights and the Street     The Mayor's Proposal     Two Dixwells, One Corner     A New Kind of Project     Taking the Street     Understanding the Avenue     Remaking \"New Haven's Harlem\"  Chapter 3: The Hill Neighborhood Union and Freedom Summer North: Citizen Participation and Movement Spaces in a 'Project Area'     The Hill     The Hill Neighborhood Union     The Hill Rent Strikes     The Freedom School     The Children's Park     Hill Cooperative Housing The National Commission on Urban Problems: \"Too Many People Are a Blighting Influence\"  Chapter 4-- Maximum Feasible Urban Management: The \"Automatic\" City, and the Hill Parents Association     Hill Reconnaissance     A Particular Kind of \"Model\"     The Hill Parents Association     Bracing for Summer  Chapter 5-Renewal, Riot, and Resistance: Reclaiming 'Model Cities'     The Riot      A \"War Zone\" on Congress Avenue     The Aftermath     Whose \"Model Cities\"?  Chapter 6-The City and the Six-Lane Highway: Bread \u0026amp; Roses and Parking Garages     Bread \u0026amp; Roses     Unmasking the Ring Road     Route 34: \"Like Blowing Into a Hurricane\"     The Language of Agitation     Public Re-Hearings     People Against the Garage     \"You Can't Argue With Concrete\"  Chapter 7-Downtown Lives and Palaces: From a 'Space of Freedom to a 'Space of Exclusion'     The Strand Hotel     The Park Plaza     Defining Home      \"Clear a Space:\" Fighting for a Different Downtown     \"Pulling Power, Buying Power, Growing Power\"     Between the Strand and the Plaza  Conclusion: \"The After\"  Works Cited      Index","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041555579223,"sku":"9781592136032","price":65.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/model-city-blues-urban-space-and-organized-resistance-in-new-haven-9781592136032","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}