Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects: Adventures in Social Democracy in NYC and DC - Owen Hatherley

Descriere Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects: Adventures in Social Democracy in NYC and DC - Owen Hatherley

A walk through the remnants of a social democratic America, and an argument about its future. \nWalking the Streets/Walking the Projects is an insightful exploration of the remnants of a social democratic America and a thought-provoking argument about its future. \n \nThe book traces the rise of a 1960s urban ideology that celebrated bottom-up, organic city development while criticising state-led planning that resulted in lifeless, sterile projects. Using walking as a method, the author tests these ideas across New York City, with a brief interlude in Washington, DC, examining a wide array of urban developments. \n \nKey areas explored: \n \n- Cultural complexes in Manhattan \n- New Deal-era public housing in Brooklyn, Harlem, and Queens \n- Roosevelt Island's social experiment \n- Communist housing co-operatives in the Bronx \n- Union-led rebuilding of the Lower East Side \n- DC's Metro system \n \nBy walking through these spaces, the book reveals that, despite their flaws, fragments of a more equal society were built in the past and continue to thrive today. Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects asks what lessons a new generation of American socialists might learn from these surviving social democratic enclaves as they envision a better future.\n

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