Below are the many sources that informed this work, from direct citations to bibliographies that can serve as a guide for deeper learning.
For a general overview of these ideas and topics, we also suggest the following books as a great place to start:
Jackson, Kenneth T.. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Print.
Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017. Print.
Smith, Clint. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 2021. Print.
Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. New York: Random House, 2020. Print.
Story 1: “Land of the Blacks”
Story 3: Struggle on the Waterfront
Brandon, Elissaveta M.. “How New York City Is Reclaiming Its Piers.” Smithsonian Magazine, published October 26, 2020. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-new-york-city-is-reclaiming-its-piers-180976121/.
Cobb, Kenneth R.. “New York’s Working Waterfront.” NYC Department of Records and Information Services, published July 24, 2020. https://www.archives.nyc/blog/2020/7/24/new-yorks-working-waterfront.
Davis, Colin J.. “‘Shape or Fight?’: New York’s Black Longshoremen, 1945-1961.” International Labor and Working Class History 62, Fall 2002: 143-163. Jstor.
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. “The 1863 Draft Riots and Abigail Hopper Gibbons.” Published July 13, 2012. https://www.villagepreservation.org/2012/07/13/the-1863-draft-riots-and-abigail-hopper-gibbons/.
Guse, Clayton. “People of color boxed out of highest paying longshoremen jobs on NY-NJ waterfront, records show.” New York Daily News, March, 20 2022, https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-international-longshoremens-association-waterfront-racial-segregation-20220321-mfw36ebtcfdxnnuqlroo7cjqxu-story.html.
Harris, Leslie M.. In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Print.
Story 4: The Ecosystem of Housing
“3,500 HERE APPLY FOR APARTMENTS.” New York Times, November 26, 1946. https://www.nytimes.com/1946/11/26/archives/3500-here-apply-for-apartments-crowds-go-to-chelsea-section-seeking.html?searchResultPosition=1.
Baskin, Morgan. “This group let public housing residents decide how the city should fix their apartments.” Fast Company, May 3, 2022. https://www.fastcompany.com/90744949/this-group-let-public-housing-residents-decide-how-the-city-should-fix-their-apartments.
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen. Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
Cavanaugh, Suzannah. “Related wades into NYCHA — and becomes a target.” The Real Deal, December 2, 2021. https://therealdeal.com/2021/12/02/related-wades-into-nycha-and-becomes-a-target/.
Cestero, Rafael. “Opinion: Restoring Public Trust to Public Housing.” City Limits, March 21, 2022. https://citylimits.org/2022/03/21/opinion-restoring-public-trust-to-public-housing/.
“CITY SEEKS HOUSING BIDS; Asks Offers on Superstructure Work on Chelsea Project.” New York Times, March 4, 1946. https://www.nytimes.com/1946/03/04/archives/city-seeks-housing-bids-asks-offers-on-superstructure-work-on.html?searchResultPosition=4.
Ferre-Sadurni, Luis. “$770,000 Was Just Spent on a Playground. Now the City Wants to Raze It.” New York Times, May 23, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/nyregion/nycha-playground.html?searchResultPosition=4.
Ferre-Sadurni, Luis. “To Save Public Housing, New York Warily Considers a New Approach: Tear Some Down.” New York Times, April 25, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/nyregion/nycha-fulton-houses.html?searchResultPosition=3.
Smith, Rachel Holliday. “After Demolition Scare, Chelsea NYCHA Tenants Forge New Path With Private Management.” The City, April 11, 2021. https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/4/11/22378290/chelsea-nycha-tenants-forge-path-with-rad-private-management.
Moses, Dean. “Chelsea tenant-chosen development plan looks to change the way NYCHA repairs are made.” AMNY The Villager, December 1, 2021. https://www.amny.com/lifestyle/city-living/chelsea-tenant-chosen-development-plan-looks-to-change-the-way-nycha-repairs-are-made/.
Plunz, Richard. A History of Housing in New York City. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. Print.
Salkaln, Donathan. “The Future of NYCHA Comes to Chelsea.” Chelsea Community News, April 7, 2021. https://chelseacommunitynews.com/2021/04/07/the-future-of-nycha-comes-to-chelsea/.
The Experience / Physical Exhibit: Bibliography
Section 1: Defining Democracy
Berman, Marshall. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity. New York: Penguin Books, 1988. Print.
Guyatt, Nicholas. Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation. Basic Books, 2016. Print.
Hohle, Randolph. The American Housing Question: Racism, Urban Citizenship, and the Privilege of Mobility. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. Print.
Leonard, Thomas C.. Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. Print.
Levitsky, Steven and Daniel Ziblatt. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future. Crown Publishing Company: New York, 2018. Print.
Näsström, Sofia. The Spirit of Democracy: Corruption, Disintegration, Renewal. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021. Print.
Smith, Clint. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 2021. Print.
Taplin-Kaguru, Nora E.. Grasping for the American Dream: Racial Segregation, Social Mobility, and Homeownership. New York: Routledge, 2022. Print.
Weinberg, Ashley. Psychology of Democracy: Of the People, By the People, For the People. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Print.
Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. New York: Random House, 2020. Print.
Section 2: Experiencing Democracy
Ambrose, Stephen. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. Print.
Bareau, Penelope. “The Meatpacking District: From the Original Farmers’ Market to High-End Fashion Scene.” 6sqft. February 12, 2015. https://www.6sqft.com/the-meatpacking-district-from-the-original-farmers-market-to-high-end-fashion-scene/.
Black, Edwin. War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race. Washington D.C.: Dialog Press, 2012. Print.
Bowery Boys. “Land of the Lenape: A Violent Tale of Conquest and Betrayal.” The Bowery Boys. July 23, 2020. https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2020/07/sad-tale-lenape-original-native-new-yorkers.html.
Caro, Robert A.. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York: Vintage Books, 1975. Print.
Corner, James. The High Line. New York: Phaidon Press, 2015. Print.
Fabricant, Michael B. and Robert Fisher. Settlement Houses Under Siege: The Struggle to Sustain Community Organizations in New York City. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
Flint, Anthony. Wrestling With Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City. New York: Random House, 2009. Print.
Foote, Thelma Wills. Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Print.
Fullilove, Mindy Thompson. Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It. New York: One World/Ballantine, 2005. Print.
Gold, Roberta. When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing. Champaign, IL: U of Illinois, 2014. Print.
Halle, David and Elisabeth Tiso. New York’s New Edge: Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Print.
Jackson, Kenneth T.. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Print.
Jenkins, Jeffrey A. and Justin Peck. Congress and the First Civil Rights Era: 1861-1918. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. Print.
Kahn, Alan Paul. The Tracks of New York: Number 3, Manhattan and Bronx Elevated Railroads of 1920. Electric Railroaders’ Association, 1973.
Koeppel, Gerard. City on a Grid: How New York Became New York. New York: De Capo Press, 2017.
Linder, Christoph and Brian Rosa. Deconstructing the High Line: Postindustrial Urbanism and the Rise of the Elevated Park. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017. Print.
McAuley, Kathleen A., and Gary Hermalyn. The Bronx. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub., 2010. Print.
McFarland, Gerald W.. Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898-1918. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. Print.
Murphy, Matthew. “‘They deliberately set fire to it … simply because it was the home of unoffending colored orphan children.’” New York Historical Society Museum & Library. July 16, 2013. https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/burning-of-orphan-asylum.
Nabors, Forrest A.. From Oligarchy to Republicanism: The Great Task of Reconstruction. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2017. Digital.
Plunz, Richard. A History of Housing in New York City. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. Print.
Pritchard, Evan T.. Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York. Chicago: Council Oak Books, 2007. Print.
Purnell, Brian, Jeanne Theoharis, and Komozi Woodard. The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle Outside of the South. New York: New York University Press, 2019.
Santangelo, Lauren C.. Suffrage and the City: New York Women Battle for the Ballot. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Print.
Scharf, J. Thomas. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms. Philadelphia: Preston, 1886. Digital.
Shapiro, Gary. “How Greenwich Village played a role in Women’s Suffrage.” The Village Sun. November 15, 2020. https://thevillagesun.com/how-greenwich-village-played-a-role-in-womens-suffrage.
Stokes, Isaac Newton Phelps. The Iconography of Manhattan Island: 1498 – 1909. New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1928. Digital.
Sze, Julie. Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006. Print.
Wallace, Deborah and Rodrick Wallace. A Plague on Your Houses: How New York was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled. New York: Verso Books, 1998. Print.
Wallace, Rodrick. “A Synergism of Plagues: ‘Planned Shrinkage,’ Contagious Housing Destruction, and AIDS in the Bronx.” Environmental Research 47, no. 1 (October 1988): 1-33.
White, Shane. Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1991. Digital.
Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. New York: Random House, 2010. Print.
Yang, Jia Lynn. One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965. New York: WW Norton & Company, 2020. Digital.
Section 2: Visioning Democracy
Bailey, Yelena. How the Streets Were Made: Housing Segregation and Black Life in America. Chapel Hill, NC.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Print.
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen. Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. Print.
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen and Matthew Gordon Lasner. Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. Print.
Kuttner, Robert. Going Big: FDR’s Legacy, Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy. New York: The New Press, 2022. Digital.
Madsen, Peter and Richard Plunz. The Urban Lifeworld: Formation, Perception, Representation. London: Routledge, 2001. Digital.
Marchiel, Rebecca K.. After Redlining: The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Financial Deregulation. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Digital.
Panuch, J. Anthony. Building a Better New York: FINAL REPORT to Mayor Robert F. Wagner. New York: NY Mayor’s Independent Survey on Housing & Urban Renewal, 1960.
Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017. Print.
Slater, Gene. Freedom to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2021. Digital.
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Print.
Vale, Lawrence J.. Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Print.
Section 2: Practicing Democracy
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McFarlane, Colin. Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. Digital.
Munch, Janet Butler. “Community Building at Amalgamated Housing Co-operative.” The Bronx County Historical Society Journal: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies LVIII, no. 1 and 2 (2020): 10-21.
Roe, Jenny and Layla McCay. Restorative Cities: Urban Design for Mental Health and Well-Being. New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021. Print.