1. Reset: The Decanted City

3. McCarren Pool, Red Hook 1936
McCarren Pool, Red Hook 1936

6. The Architecture of Moses’ “Techno-Pastoral Garden” (Berman)
Accessible by Car but not by LIRR!! “Techno-Pastoral Garden” (Berman)

7. Water Tower at Jones Beach State Park

8. St. Mark’s Campanile, Venice

9. Jones Beach Bath House (1930)
Jones Beach bath house (recreational palace) 1930

10. hack your way with a meat ax.”
Hudson Street, Greenwich Village; Cross-Bronx Expressway
Cross-Bronx Expressway: “When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to
hack your way with a meat ax.”

12. NYC’s earlier (and classier) nod to Haussmann:
The Grand Concourse– the “pinnacle of modernity”, for Berman
Grand Concourse

13. United Nations Secretariat Building (Niemeyer, Le Corbusier, 1952)

14. Le Corbusier’s Legacy: Towers in the Park

15. Silver Towers
Modernism…Brutalism? Silver Towers

16. Washington Square Village “Spiritual Poverty”
“Brutalism” and “Spiritual Poverty”

17. Chatham Green
“Spiritual Poverty”?

18. The “Superblock”: Lincoln Center (1962)

19. Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center

23. Levittown 1948
Levittown 1948

27. “labor-saving” device??
Washing Machine as
“labor-saving” device??
Washing Machine as “labor-saving” device??

31. Bernard Levey Family, “Cape Cod” Model, 1949

32. Levey Family,
“Ranch” Model,
1950

34. Jet Magazine, August 27, 1953

35. Levittown Today
Levittown Today

39. Lewis Mumford, April 18, 1938 Jane Jacobs, 1916-2006
Jane Jacobs, April 18, 1938
Jane Jacobs,