#slumclearance

Publishing my ghosts... Narrating the City should be out at the end of November with #intellectbooks #hauntology #urbanism #rephotography #mediatedcity #timetravel #slumclearance #mementomori #postmemory #archival #mediaarchaeology #photographytheory #spectralityresearch https://www.instagram.com/p/CG9jseLnQbV/?igshid=1hexad1z3x39z

We found this displacement letter template in the back of a Slum Clearance report from 1953. By the late 1960s, an estimated 29,464 families had been displaced by urban renewal projects in New York City, 41% of which were families of color. As this illustrates, often families would recieve a letter that their home was in the way of a new housing development, expressway or civic building and given months or sometimes weeks to leave. Despite promises of rehousing, families, especially those of color, were unable to move into the new developments and often pushed out of the neighborhood. Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, the largest housing development in Manhattan, did not even allow black families when it opened in 1947. Urban renewal also caused a mass exodus of white families out of the city to the suburbs known as white flight. #UrbanRenewal #NegroRemoval #gentrification #fha #robertmoses #slumclearance #urbanism #nychistory #pennsouth #washingtonsquarevillage #publichousing #nycha #mitchelllama #housingpolicy #lowereastside #chelsea #brooklyn #thebronx #nycurbanism (at Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsZBhE9l3M1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2908ub33n4og

Narrating the City (2020, #Intellect Books) will be published November this year. The book features some of my writing on #rephotography and #slumclearance, an off shoot of my #phd on #hauntology, it also addresses the #spectrality of #photographies. The book’s cover design is one of my images from A Window on Time. You can pre-order the book here https://www.intellectbooks.com/narrating-the-city https://www.instagram.com/p/CA_JfSKH16h/?igshid=h2h6mzboe75i

Published by Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board, 2013.

Published by Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, 1971.

#MapMondays! 1934 Slum Clearance areas of interest via @nyplmaps "14 Special Study Areas" examined by the 1933-34 Slum Clearance Committee. This is the cover for the volume of "Maps and Charts" containing 137 plates depicting a range of mapped socio-economic, demographic, and infrastructure data for Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, ranging from "Venereal Disease-Home Location" and "Welfare Cases" to "Unused land and Abandoned Buildings" and "New construction." Call# Map Div.++ (New York) (Slum Clearance Committee of New York. Maps and Charts) [1934] #maps #nychistory #nychousingauthority #slumclearance #urbanplanning (at NYPL The New York Public Library)

Construction of Sara D. Roosevelt Park on the demolished blocks (1929) between Chrystie Forsythe north of Canal and the Manhattan Bridge. The land was originally cleared to make a recessed roadway surrounded by public housing. The Park would be the largest in the Lower East Side and completed in 1934. #lowereastside #lesnyc #saradrooseveltpark #canalstreet #nolita #manhattan #nycparks #slumclearance #robertmoses #nychistory (at Sara D. Roosevelt Park - Chrystie Street)

Today would have been Jane Jacobs' 100th birthday! Jane Jacobs, the writer / activist who helped transform urban planning and the way people view their cities, was one of the major forces in stopping the construction of the Lower Manhattan Expressway seen above. The Lower Manhattan Expressway (1963) would have connected the Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges to the Holland Tunnel with a ten lane highway, demolishing much of the SOHO and NOLITA we know today. The latest version of this highway would have been covered with brutalist housing blocks designed by Paul Rudolph. The housing over the highway plan never really caught on, with the exception of the Trans-Manhattan Expressway connecting the GWB to the Harlem River Drive, which is covered with modernist tower blocks. Jane Jacobs also helped protect Washington Square Park from being intersected with a highway. She attacked urban planners who thought the only way to improve a neighborhood was by knocking it down and her book Death and Life of Great American Cities has become the textbook for urban studies. Jacobs even made the banner of Google today! #janejacobs #jj100 #robertmoses #lowermanhattanexpressway #urbanplanning #soho #nolita #transmanhattanexpressway #brutalism #paulrudolph #modernism #slumclearance #urbanstudies #janejacobs100 (at Greenwich Village)