CAP 200 Bronx Beautiful - Casari ed. - Textbook

Unit 3. Urban Planning and Infrastructure Goals

• To introduce students to and develop their understanding of the planning and development of the Bronx’s infrastructure. This unit is aimed at helping students understand what is necessary to the creation of a community, and how those decisions shape their neighborhoods and personal lives. This unit will mainly focus on Bronx history during the 20^th Century including issues surrounding gentrification and development to the present moment. The years from 1960-1995 will have a special focus as the South Bronx moves from devastation to resurrection.

• The Bronx by E. Gonzalez
  Hostos students: This book is available online through the Hostos Library. You must sign in using your CUNY username and password to access it.

• Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx
  Hostos students: This book is available online through the Hostos Library. You must sign in using your CUNY username and password to access it.

• The Cross Bronx Expressway: Marshall Berman on Robert Moses

• “Why Robert Moses Keeps Rising from an Unquiet Grave"
  Hostos students: sign up for a FREE New York Times subscription to read this article. This requires your CUNY username and password.

• The Tragedy of Urban Renewal: The destruction and survival of a New York City neighborhood

•  Chapter 15 of Fear City: This chapter tells the story of Hostos in the context of the 1970s fiscal crisis.

• Casari thesis Concourse Dreams

• Casari Not So Fun City

• Robert Moses and NYC [PDF]

1. Gonzalez, E. (2004). The Bronx. Columbia University Press. https://doi.org/10.7312/gonz12114

2. Rosenblum. C.(2009). Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. NYU Press. https://doi.org/10.18574/9780814777404

3. Patell and Waterman's History of New York. (2013, September 12). Marshall Berman on Robert Moses [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/V9b5UrF8O-s?si=Ract7qZEpbyb0lJ6

4. Edelstein Aff. n.d.

5. Dunlap, D. (2017, March 21). Why Robert Moses Keeps Rising from an Unquiet Grave. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/nyregion/robert-moses-andrew-cuomo-and-the-saga-of-a-bronx-expressway.html

6. The Tragedy of Urban Renewal: The destruction and survival of a New York City neighborhood

7.  Chapter 15 of Fear City: This chapter tells the story of Hostos in the context of the 1970s fiscal crisis.

8. Casari thesis Concourse Dreams

9. Casari Not So Fun City

10. Robert Moses and NYC [PDF]