The Planner and Nuclear Crisis Relocation

30 September 1984

journal article
editorial
Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of the American Planning Association

Vol. 50 (3) , 259-260
https://doi.org/10.1080/01944368408976591

Abstract

Since 1980 New York City has been pasting decals over windows of abandoned buildings in the Bronx and Brooklyn. The decals bear images of lamps, Venetian blinds, houseplants, and television sets. The buildings are otherwise untouched. The purpose of the effort, as reported in The New York Times (7 November 1983) is to “… spruce up the neighborhood, lift the morale of residents … and make a better impression on the thousands of motorists, some presumably investors, who pass the area daily.” According to one official, “Morale is very real…. Perception is reality.”

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This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Nuclear Winter: Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions
Science, 1983
Nuclear War and Climatic Catastrophe: Some Policy Implications
Foreign Affairs, 1983