A New Deal for New York - Hardcover

Wallace, Mike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0972315519 ISBN 13: 9780972315517

Publisher: Bell & Weiland Pub Co, 2002

Synopsis

Discusses a new way of thinking about the future of New York City following the attack of September 11th, arguing for a broad plan for improvement including such projects as a revitalized port and more affordable housing.

About this title

About the Author:

Mike Wallace is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). He is also Director of the Gotham Center for New York City History and a recent Fellow at the Center of Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

From Publishers Weekly:

The co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 here uses his extensive knowledge of the city to guide a new vision of New York after September 11. Wallace was in the public library preparing a follow-up book to Gotham when the city was attacked. After following the many different proposals for renewal, Wallace decided to lay them against lessons from history. His premise is that New York digests crisis to make itself stronger and has done so repeatedly over its 400-year history. In this essay-like monograph, published in conjunction with the Gotham Center for New York City History, Wallace sees a revitalized port, improved mass transit and more affordable housing as essential goals, and points out that previous accomplishments of urban planning were on a much grander scale than will be necessary to rebuild downtown: the 1930s New Deal, for example, was responsible for building innumerable health clinics, libraries, educational facilities, homeless shelters, courthouses, firehouses, police stations, LaGuardia Airport, the FDR Drive and the Holland and Lincoln tunnels. Because the present budget crisis is no worse than the depression, Wallace sees no reason why renewal in this century should not be as progressive as it was in the last, since New York history has always shown that "the opposite side of disaster is opportunity."
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About this edition

• Publisher: Bell & Weiland Pub Co
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0972315519
• ISBN 13: 9780972315517
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 115