The Dying City
Postwar New York and the Ideology of Fear
Brian L. Tochterman
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 05/2017
Pages: 296
Subject: History, Social Science
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Print ISBN: 9780000000000
eBook ISBN: 9781469633084
DESCRIPTION
It was this narrative of New York as the dying city, Tochterman argues, that contributed to a burgeoning and broad anti-urban political culture hostile to state intervention on behalf of cities and citizens. Ultimately, the author shows that New York's decline--and the decline of American cities in general--was in part a self-fulfilling prophecy bolstered by urban fear and the new political culture nourished by it.