Roosevelt Island: Exception to a City in Crisis
Today, New York City’s Roosevelt Island stands as living proof that the public sector can produce a mixed-income and mixed-race neighborhood from scratch. Its successes contrast with typical perceptions of government housing failure and indicate that with determined leadership, stable funding, and a...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/0096144211400378 2024-06-16T07:42:55+00:00 Roosevelt Island: Exception to a City in Crisis Freemark, Yonah 2011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144211400378 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0096144211400378 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Journal of Urban History volume 37, issue 3, page 355-383 ISSN 0096-1442 1552-6771 journal-article 2011 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144211400378 2024-05-19T13:00:29Z Today, New York City’s Roosevelt Island stands as living proof that the public sector can produce a mixed-income and mixed-race neighborhood from scratch. Its successes contrast with typical perceptions of government housing failure and indicate that with determined leadership, stable funding, and a good location, the public sector can create healthy, heterogeneous neighborhoods. This article examines the process of designing and constructing Roosevelt Island to illustrate how and why local actors took advantage of favorable conditions and made important political choices to achieve their commitments, even as political and financial support for such developments deteriorated. In light of the often dismal reputation of government housing policy in the United States, Roosevelt Island’s success—unique in its mixed-income legacy—offers lessons about effective city governance in the face of dwindling national support. Article in Journal/Newspaper Roosevelt Island SAGE Publications Roosevelt Island ENVELOPE(-162.000,-162.000,-79.283,-79.283) Journal of Urban History 37 3 355 383 |
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Today, New York City’s Roosevelt Island stands as living proof that the public sector can produce a mixed-income and mixed-race neighborhood from scratch. Its successes contrast with typical perceptions of government housing failure and indicate that with determined leadership, stable funding, and a good location, the public sector can create healthy, heterogeneous neighborhoods. This article examines the process of designing and constructing Roosevelt Island to illustrate how and why local actors took advantage of favorable conditions and made important political choices to achieve their commitments, even as political and financial support for such developments deteriorated. In light of the often dismal reputation of government housing policy in the United States, Roosevelt Island’s success—unique in its mixed-income legacy—offers lessons about effective city governance in the face of dwindling national support. |
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