ABSTRACT

Between 1956 and 1959, amid far-flung residential and industrial suburbanization and with the joint backing of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Twentieth Century Fund, an interdisciplinary coterie of scholars from Harvard partnered with New York’s Regional Plan Association to produce a widely read ten-volume ‘projection’ of what the physical plant, political economy, and everyday lives of that metropolis would look like in 1985. This paper considers the New York Metropolitan Region Study as a peculiar, consequential exercise in how postwar urbanists recast urban temporality. Rejecting both the certainties of prophecy and the hazards of mere prediction, the Study sought to establish a new tense for urbanism and a newly disciplined set of methods for making inferences about the urban future on the basis of the past and present. The constituent volumes of the NYMRS garnered various degrees of influence in isolation. The sum total both furthered acceptance of a regional scale of operations for planning and decisively chastened hopes for political intervention on urban and regional futures.

摘要

在1956年至1959年之间，由于住宅和工业区的郊区化，以及洛克菲勒基金会，福特基金会和20世纪基金会的共同支持，哈佛大学的跨学科研究机构与纽约州区域计划协会合作，共同开发了一个广泛阅读有关该大都市的物理植物，政治经济和日常生活在1985年的样子的十卷“投影”。本文将纽约大都市区研究视为战后都市主义者如何重塑城市的奇特而必然的练习。时间性。拒绝预言的确定性和单纯预测的危险，该研究试图为城市主义建立新的时态，并建立一套新的纪律方法，以便在过去和现在的基础上推断出城市的未来。NYMRS的组成部分孤立地受到了不同程度的影响。总的来说，这进一步促进了人们对区域行动计划的接受，并坚定地破坏了对城市和区域未来进行政治干预的希望。