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The Sixties and New York City Revisited

April 24, 2017

Week Eleven: Planning, Policy, and Politics,

During this evening’s class, after we had our walk through Greenwich Village on Sunday afternoon, we will view an extremely timely video of the epic battle between Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses. These titans clashed over many issues but especially Moses’ ideas about “improving” the city and region by, in Jacob’s opinion, the “destruction” of her beloved neighborhood. You have had some preparation for this via the assigned and recommended readings for the class, as well as the trip through some of her treasured (but slowly disappearing) streetscapes. We’ll look also at a Master Class with former City Planning Commission Chair Donald H. Elliot talking about the “Plan for New York City 1969: A Proposal” and peruse the digital copy on line for my favorite Borough of Brooklyn. Of course there are other parts of the Big Apple are worth looking at such as Staten Island.

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  1. Jerome Krase

    April 24, 2017 — 2:20 pm

    The “retrospective” readings for this class are:
    Laurence, Peter L. “Introduction.” in Becoming Jane Jacobs. (2016),
    Lindsay, John V. “Election 1969” in The City. 1970, and a chapter from the Power Broker on the World’s Fair. For our next class on “Immigration to New York City,” you should read: Foner, Nancy. “Introduction and Who They Are and Why They Have Come,” in From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration. (2000).

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Jerome Krase, Murray Koppelman Professor, and Professor Emeritus, at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York, received a BA in Sociology at Indiana University (1967) and his Ph.D. at New York University (1973). He continues to work as an activist-scholar and serves as a consultant to public and private agencies regarding inter-group relations and other urban community issues. His interests have expanded into visual studies of neighborhood communities. He has researched, written, photographed, and lectured globally on urban life and culture, migration, and gentrification. Single and co-Published books include Self and Community in the City (1982), Ethnicity and Machine Politics (1992), Race and Ethnicity in New York City (2005), Ethnic Landscapes in an Urban World. (2006), Seeing Cities Change (2012), Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn (2016). He is an active member of several national and international professional organizations including the International, European, and American Sociological Associations and sevrves on several professional journal editorial boards.

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