A New Deal for New York
Reviews
“A bracingly optimistic program for regenerating not just Ground
Zero but the whole metropolitan region.... Acutely attuned to the
economic and political realities that determine the architecture of
cities, Wallace nonetheless sees no need to stifle the humanitarian
impulses that pulled America out of the Great Depression. Here he
urges that however conservative the electorate may seem to have become
in recent decades, a similar spirit of shared purpose can prevail
against the very different perils we face today.”
—New
York Times
“An exhilarating, great-hearted book.... Wallace has provided
an inspiring glimpse of the city on a hill for the twenty-first century—a
city committed to social justice, sustainable growth, and general
welfare. One hopes that he persists in his campaign, hopeless as it
may often seem, and resists the temptation, which has seduced so many
of those upon whom the achievement of his vision depends, to cultivate
his garden.”
—New
York Review of Books
“A utopian gesture in a city that has been mired in grim realities
for a year.... Mike Wallace, arguably the city’s foremost public
intellectual on the subject of New York history, [makes] the case
for redevelopment on a human, rather than a monumental, scale. [and]
links downtown redevelopment to a call for a reinvigorated, activist
government—that is, the kind of government that was born in
New York in the 1920s and 30s.”
—New
York Observer
“Powerful and perfectly timely.... By far the most cogent set
of recommendations advanced in the past year of intense debate over
the fate of Ground Zero.... Wallace places the project within its
larger regional and national context, delineated with a breadth of
historical learning and socio-political insight not seen since Lewis
Mumford.... This is just what we need now, and Wallace has risen to
the occasion splendidly.”
—The
New Republic
“A valuable guide to what the city can be if its political
leaders can summon the will—and find the money—to undertake
the kind of great public acts that New York, in its heyday, accomplished
with such stunning regularity.”
—Washington
Post
“Wallace doesn’t just focus on pie-in-the-sky
visions: he offers historical examples and a recipe for rallying the
political and financial resources needed to get the job done....As a
freeze-frame of a memorable moment, it has timeless values.”
—Time Out
“Deftly and succinctly, Wallace identifies lower Manhattan’s
reconstruction as an historic opportunity to transform the city’s
development strategy, away from sucking up to financial conglomerates
and towards embracing an array of job-creating sectors.”
—City Limits
“A new vision of New York.... Wallace sees no reason
why renewal in this century should not be as progressive as it was in
the last.”
—Publishers Weekly | More
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October 2002
$18.95 hardcover
5 × 7" · 128 pages
ISBN 0-9723155-1-9
Published by
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in association with
Gotham Center Books
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