The Dying City: Postwar New York and the Ideology of Fear

Author/Contributor(s):	Tochterman, Brian L
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	06/27/2017
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"As a sense of crisis rose in American cities during 1960s and 1970s, a period defined by suburban growth and deindustrialization, no city was viewed in its death throes more than New York. Feeding this narrative of the dying city was a wide range of representations in film, literature, and the popular press--representations that ironically would not have been produced if not for a city full of productive possibilities as well as challenges"--