Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Robert Macoy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2024-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385377781
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Art M. Blake
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,83 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1421439239
Originally published in 2006. For many Americans at the turn of the twentieth century and into the 1920s, the city of New York conjured dark images of crime, poverty, and the desperation of crowded immigrants. In How New York Became American, 1890–1924, Art M. Blake explores how advertising professionals and savvy business leaders "reinvented" the city, creating a brand image of New York that capitalized on the trend toward pleasure travel. Blake examines the ways in which these early boosters built on the attention drawn to the city and its exotic populations to craft an image of New York City as America writ urban—a place where the arts flourished, diverse peoples lived together boisterously but peacefully, and where one could enjoy a visit. Drawing on a wide range of textual and visual primary sources, Blake guides the reader through New York's many civic identities, from the first generation of New York skyscrapers and their role in "Americanizing" the city to the promotion of Midtown as the city's definitive public face. His study ranges from the late 1890s into the early twentieth century, when the United States suddenly emerged as an imperial power, and the nation's industry, commerce, and culture stood poised to challenge Europe's global dominance. New York, the nation's largest city, became the de facto capital of American culture. Social reformers and tourism boosters, keen to see America's cities rival those of France or Britain, jockeyed for financial and popular support. Blake weaves a compelling story of a city's struggle for metropolitan and national status and its place in the national imagination.
Author : François Weil
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231129350
Exploring the quintessential symbol of American enterprise and energy, this compelling, single-volume history takes on the New York of myth and offers an original analysis of how it actually developed into a global city. 60 photos & maps.
Author : D.A. Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 25,76 MB
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 113582469X
This authoritative and detailed review chronicles the events leading up to the regional plan of New York, 1929 and assesses its significance and influence on subsequent developments of New York.
Author : Eric W. Sanderson
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1613125739
What did New York look like four centuries ago? An extraordinary reconstruction of a wild island from the forests of Times Square to the wetlands downtown. Named a Best Book of the Year by Library Journal, New York Magazine, and San Francisco Chronicle On September 12, 1609, Henry Hudson first set foot on the land that would become Manhattan. Today, it’s difficult to imagine what he saw, but for more than a decade, landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson has been working to do just that. Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City is the astounding result of those efforts, reconstructing in words and images the wild island that millions now call home. By geographically matching an eighteenth-century map with one of the modern city, examining volumes of historic documents, and collecting and analyzing scientific data, Sanderson re-creates topography, flora, and fauna from a time when actual wolves prowled far beyond Wall Street and the degree of biological diversity rivaled that of our most famous national parks. His lively text guides you through this abundant landscape—while breathtaking illustrations transport you back in time. Mannahatta is a groundbreaking work that provides not only a window into the past, but also inspiration for the future. “[A] wise and beautiful book, sure to enthrall anyone interested in NYC history.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A cartographical detective tale . . . The fact-intense charts, maps and tables offered in abundance here are fascinating.” —The New York Times “[An] exuberantly written and beautifully illustrated exploration of pre-European Gotham.” —San Francisco Chronicle “You don’t have to be a New Yorker to be enthralled.” —Library Journal
Author : Carl A. Zimring
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0822987988
Built on an estuary, New York City is rich in population and economic activity but poor in available land to manage the needs of a modern city. Since consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898, New York has faced innumerable challenges, from complex water and waste management issues, to housing and feeding millions of residents in a concentrated area, to dealing with climate change in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, and everything in between. Any consideration of sustainable urbanism requires understanding how cities have developed the systems that support modern life and the challenges posed by such a concentrated population. As the largest city in the United States, New York City is an excellent site to investigate these concerns. Featuring an array of the most distinguished and innovative urban environmental historians in the field, Coastal Metropolis offers new insight into how the modern city transformed its air, land, and water as it grew.
Author : Charles Allcott Flagg
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,45 MB
Release : 1901
Category : New York (State)
ISBN :
Author : Christopher J. Schuberth
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 39,31 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Geology
ISBN :
Author : Kara Murphy Schlichting
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,63 MB
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 022661302X
The history of New York City’s urban development often centers on titanic municipal figures like Robert Moses and on prominent inner Manhattan sites like Central Park. New York Recentered boldly shifts the focus to the city’s geographic edges—the coastlines and waterways—and to the small-time unelected locals who quietly shaped the modern city. Kara Murphy Schlichting details how the vernacular planning done by small businessmen and real estate operators, performed independently of large scale governmental efforts, refigured marginal locales like Flushing Meadows and the shores of Long Island Sound and the East River in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The result is a synthesis of planning history, environmental history, and urban history that recasts the story of New York as we know it.
Author : Richard Plunz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 36,68 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780231062978
Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis," New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innovation and reform. Plunz traces New York's housing development from 1850 to the present, exploring the housing of all classes, discussing the development of types ranging from the single-family house to the high-rise apartment tower.