{"product_id":"contested-city-art-and-public-history-as-mediation-at-new-york-s-seward-park-urban-renewal-area-by-gabrielle-bendiner-viani","title":"Contested City: Art and Public History as Mediation at New York's Seward Park Urban Renewal Area by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2020 Brendan Gill Prize finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFor forty years, as New York’s Lower East Side went from disinvested to gentrified, residents lived with a wound at the heart of the neighborhood, a wasteland of vacant lots known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA). Most of the buildings on the fourteen-square-block area were condemned in 1967, displacing thousands of low-income people of color with the promise that they would soon return to new housing—housing that never came.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eOver decades, efforts to keep out affordable housing sparked deep-rooted enmity and stalled development, making SPURA a dramatic study of failed urban renewal, as well as a microcosm epitomizing the greatest challenges faced by American cities since World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eArtist and urban scholar Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani was invited to enter this tense community to support a new approach to planning, which she accepted using collaboration, community organizing, public history, and public art. Having engaged her students at The New School in a multi-year collaboration with community activists, the exhibitions and guided tours of her Layered SPURA project provided crucial new opportunities for dialogue about the past, present, and future of the neighborhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSimultaneously revealing the incredible stories of community and activism at SPURA, and shedding light on the importance of collaborative creative public projects, \u003cem\u003eContested City\u003c\/em\u003e bridges art, design, community activism, and urban history. This is a book for artists, planners, scholars, teachers, cultural institutions, and all those who seek to collaborate in new ways with communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e• Paperback; English; 234 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press  \/  Pub Date: January 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e• Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0.7 inches (W x L x D)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chicago Distribution Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555420049465,"sku":"210000000466","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/contested-city.jpg?v=1790278422","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/contested-city-art-and-public-history-as-mediation-at-new-york-s-seward-park-urban-renewal-area-by-gabrielle-bendiner-viani","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}