Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Biographic Data
| ID | 1379721 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Dagen Bloom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas Dagen |
| FAMILY NAME | Bloom |
| SIGNATURE | BLOOM N D |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Free Time
Title I Pioneered the Subsidized Urban Megaproject
In a 1945 article for Life, Boston architect William Greeley called for local government “to destroy our own diseased tissues and by heroic willpower rebuild our community as a worthy competitor of
A People’s History of SFO
Journal Article A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport. By Eric Porter Get access A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport By Eric Porter (Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 296 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Nicholas Dagen Bloom Nicholas Dagen Bloom Hunter College, New York, New York, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on:…
How States Shaped Postwar America
Rouse, James
James Rouse (1914–1996) was a leading American real estate developer and urban visionary of the mid‐twentieth century who believed deeply that the private sector, with targeted public subsidies, could both solve America's deepening urban crisis and tame suburban sprawl. His vision for a new era of private–public partnerships influenced urban policy in areas such as urban renewal, the regional shopping center, new towns, festival marketplaces, and…
Still renovating
Greg Suttor’s Still Renovating: A History of Canadian Social Housing Policy is a clear and deeply researched introduction to the complex and distinct history of Canadian social housing. Canadian so
How States Shaped Postwar America
Abraham Kazan
Affordable Housing in New York
Roberta Gold. When Tenants Claimed the City
Manhattan Projects
Public Housing That Worked
In 1957 the goddess of “modern” housing, Catherine Bauer, declared public housing a “dreary deadlock” (Architectural Forum, June 1957), and those who followed her—sociologists, architectural critics, and historians—only swelled the chorus. Now Nicholas Dagen Bloom seeks to alter that verdict by arguing that at least in New York City public housing policy worked. Employing a partially chronological, partially topical structure, Bloom neatly unfold…
Public Life as Consumerism
Les villes nouvelles ne sont pas des banlieues. Les obstacles à la planification des cités-jardins américaines
Nicholas Dagen Bloom New Towns are not suburbs Obstacles to planning US garden cities During the twentieth century, the garden city model imported from Europe a century before spread across the United States without every satisfactorily achieving its goals of harmonious social and spatial coexistence. The New Town model took over after World War Two to restructure monotonous suburbs forming the urban sprawl. What was achieved never lived up to th…
Suburban Alchemy
Suburban Alchemy
Journal Article Suburban Alchemy: 1960s New Towns and the Transformation of the American Dream Get access Suburban Alchemy: 1960s New Towns and the Transformation of the American Dream. By Bloom Nicholas Dagen. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001. x, 333 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn0-8142-0874-6. Paper, $27.95, isbn0-8142-5075-0.) Paul H. Mattingly Paul H. Mattingly New York UniversityNew York, New York Search for other works by this author o…
Public Housing That Worked
In 1957 the goddess of “modern” housing, Catherine Bauer, declared public housing a “dreary deadlock” (Architectural Forum, June 1957), and those who followed her—sociologists, architectural critics, and historians—only swelled the chorus. Now Nicholas Dagen Bloom seeks to alter that verdict by arguing that at least in New York City public housing policy worked. Employing a partially chronological, partially topical structure, Bloom neatly unfold…
Suburban Alchemy
Suburban Alchemy
Journal Article Suburban Alchemy: 1960s New Towns and the Transformation of the American Dream Get access Suburban Alchemy: 1960s New Towns and the Transformation of the American Dream. By Bloom Nicholas Dagen. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001. x, 333 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn0-8142-0874-6. Paper, $27.95, isbn0-8142-5075-0.) Paul H. Mattingly Paul H. Mattingly New York UniversityNew York, New York Search for other works by this author o…
Public Life as Consumerism
Les villes nouvelles ne sont pas des banlieues. Les obstacles à la planification des cités-jardins américaines
Nicholas Dagen Bloom New Towns are not suburbs Obstacles to planning US garden cities During the twentieth century, the garden city model imported from Europe a century before spread across the United States without every satisfactorily achieving its goals of harmonious social and spatial coexistence. The New Town model took over after World War Two to restructure monotonous suburbs forming the urban sprawl. What was achieved never lived up to th…
Public Housing That Worked
In 1957 the goddess of “modern” housing, Catherine Bauer, declared public housing a “dreary deadlock” (Architectural Forum, June 1957), and those who followed her—sociologists, architectural critics, and historians—only swelled the chorus. Now Nicholas Dagen Bloom seeks to alter that verdict by arguing that at least in New York City public housing policy worked. Employing a partially chronological, partially topical structure, Bloom neatly unfold…
Manhattan Projects
Roberta Gold. When Tenants Claimed the City
Abraham Kazan
Affordable Housing in New York
How States Shaped Postwar America
Rouse, James
James Rouse (1914–1996) was a leading American real estate developer and urban visionary of the mid‐twentieth century who believed deeply that the private sector, with targeted public subsidies, could both solve America's deepening urban crisis and tame suburban sprawl. His vision for a new era of private–public partnerships influenced urban policy in areas such as urban renewal, the regional shopping center, new towns, festival marketplaces, and…
Still renovating
Greg Suttor’s Still Renovating: A History of Canadian Social Housing Policy is a clear and deeply researched introduction to the complex and distinct history of Canadian social housing. Canadian so
How States Shaped Postwar America
Title I Pioneered the Subsidized Urban Megaproject
In a 1945 article for Life, Boston architect William Greeley called for local government “to destroy our own diseased tissues and by heroic willpower rebuild our community as a worthy competitor of
A People’s History of SFO
Journal Article A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport. By Eric Porter Get access A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport By Eric Porter (Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 296 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Nicholas Dagen Bloom Nicholas Dagen Bloom Hunter College, New York, New York, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on:…
Free Time
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