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Sunnyside Gardens: Planning and Preservation in a Historic Garden Suburb and Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City (updated with a new preface)
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机译：Sunnyside Gardens: Planning and Preservation in a Historic Garden Suburb and Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City (updated with a new preface)
Two recent books-one a new publication and the other an updated work now issued in paperback-explore the struggles people face when they seek to preserve or reconstruct the physical architecture so critical to community success. In Sunnyside Gardens: Planningand Preservation in a Historic Garden Suburb, Jeffrey A. Kroessler charts the largely successful efforts to preserve the architecture of garden suburbs first conceived and built in the early twentieth century. In the updated Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City, Cordon Young recounts his far less fruitful attempts to contribute a small piece to the resurrection of a once-thriving city built around, and in parts by, the industrial giant that dominated its life. Chronologically, both Kroessler's story about Sunnyside Gardens in Queens, New York, and Young's memoir of Flint, Michigan, begin in the twentieth century's early decades. Sunnyside Gardens' planners sought to create a community of lower-middle-class and early-career-professional families who might live pleasantly within the confines of an intensely urban environment. Flint's Civic Park neighborhood aimed a little lower on the economic class structure but targeted many of the same goals.
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