The following is a partial list of sources for the course Beyond and Between Pratt’s Gates, Spring 2021
Secondary Sources on Internet
Interactive Infographics, Blogs and Films about Urban Renewal
NYC Atlas of Urban Renewal – Jakob Winkler
Urban Renewal: The Historian’s Exclusive Handbook
Lost Rondout: A Story of Urban Removal (film). Directed by Stephen Blauweiss and Lynn Woods. Kingston, NY: Lost Rondout Project, 2016.
Reviewing Renewal Queens Museum Installation
Journal Articles on Urban Renewal
Bendiner-Viani, Gabrielle. Art and Public History as Mediation at Seward Park’s Urban Renewal Area. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2018.
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen and Mathew Gordan Lasner. “Below Market Subsidized Housing Begins” in Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City, eds. Nicholas Dagen Bloom and Matthew Gordon Lasner. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2016 (35–70).
Christian, Pierre and Olivier Balez. Robert Moses: The Master Builder of New York City. London: Nobrow, 2018.
Chronopoulos, Themis. “Robert Moses and the Visual Dimension of Physical Disorder:
Efforts to Demonstrate Urban Blight in the Age of Slum Clearance.” Journal of Planning History, Vol. 13(3), 2014 (207–233).
Cohen, Lizabeth. “Learning Lessons from the Urban Renewal Era.” New York History, Vol.100 (2), 2020 (175–191).
Richard Plunz, A History of Housing in New York City. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1990.
Rowan, Jamin Creed. “Sidewalk Narratives, Tenement Narratives: Seeing Urban Renewal through the Settlement Movement.” Journal of Urban History 39, no.3, 2012 (392–410).
Joel Schwartz, The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urban Liberals, and the Redevelopment of the Inner City. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1993.
Tanaka, George. “Fiduciary Landlords: Life Insurers and Large-Scale Housing in New York City.” Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, 2017 (35–40).
Zipp, Samuel. “The Roots and Routes of Urban Renewal,” Journal of Urban History 39, no.3, 2012 (366–91).
Zipp, Samuel. Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Books on the History of Bedford Stuyvesant
Wilder, Craig Steven. Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000 (175–213).
Michael, Woodsworth. Battle for Bed-Stuy: The Long War on Poverty in New York City, (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016, Chapter 6, (201–235).
Digital primary sources in addition to the archival sources
Slums and Blight: A Disease of Urban Life (1956) A report by the Urban Renewal Administration in 1956
Report on Urban Renewal, William L. Slayton, Commissioner, 1963. Looking back to the beginnings of Urban Renewal and its accomplishments
Urban Renewal Notes, January–February 1965. Urban Renewal Administration Housing and Home Finance Agency, Ohio State University
Robert Moses on Slum Clearance, the NYPR Archive, an 11 minute interview. Elsie Richardson, interviews and memorials.
https://www.brooklynhistory.org/blog/in-memory-of-elsie-richardson/
http://www.nyc.gov/html/cchr/justice/html/videos/elsie_richardson.shtml
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/remembering-elsie-richardson/