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Author:   Jeffrey A. Kroessler ,  Laura A. Heim
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
ISBN:  

9780823293810

ISBN 10:   0823293815
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   06 April 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface | vii Sunnyside Gardens Chronology | ix Introduction: Sunnyside Gardens and the Garden City Idea: A Cityscape for Urban Reform | 1 I. Planning 1 The Garden City and the Garden Suburb in Great Britain | 17 2 The Garden Suburb in New York | 32 3 Planning and Building Sunnyside Gardens | 47 4 Design and Community: Architecture and Landscape as a Social Good | 67 5 Building on Success: Radburn and Phipps Garden Apartments | 86 6 Foreclosure: The Great Depression and the End of a Dream | 101 7 Envisioning the Future City | 115 II. Preservation 8 Preserving the Historic Garden Suburb in London and New York | 129 9 Preserving Sunnyside Gardens | 143 10 The Fight for the Historic District | 160 11 A Question of Appropriateness: The Aluminaire House Controversy | 178 Conclusion: A Second Century for the Garden Suburb | 193 Acknowledgments | 203 Notes | 205 Bibliography | 229 Index | 239

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Queens, in Jeffery Kroessler's telling, is a borough of urban utopias, as he shows in this definitive, well-written history of Sunnyside Gardens, tracing its history from when it was a gleam in the eyes of its visionary planners, through its heyday, to its complicated post-utopian history. There are many treasures to be found in this book, including a fascinating account of For those interested in the history of intentional communities, in the conflicting visions of those two squabbling giants of twentieth-century urbanism, Lewis Mumford (a one-time Sunnyside Gardens resident) and Jane Jacobs, and for the sorely neglected history of the borough of Queens, Sunnyside Gardens is a must-read.--Peter Eisenstadt, author of Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing

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Jeffrey Kroessler (1952-2023) was a Professor at the Lloyd Sealy Library, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and author of The Greater New York Sports Chronology; New York, Year by Year: A Chronology of the Great Metropolis; Historic Preservation in Queens; and other works.

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