Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape
New York's metamorphosis from compact part to modern metropolis occurred during the mid-nineteenth century. Empire City tells the story of the dreams that inspired the changes in the landscape and the problems that eluded solution. Author David Scobey paints a remarkable panorama of New York's uneven development, a city-building and speculative excess. Envisioning a new kind of national civilization, bourgeois urbanists' attempted to make New York the nation's pre-eminent city. Ultimately, they created a masaic of grand improvements, dynamic change, and environmental disorder. Empire City sets the stories of the city's most celebrated landmar…
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- ISBN: 978-1-56639-950-0
- EAN: 9781566399500
- Produktnummer: 9849657
- Verlag: Temple Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Masse: H26.1 cm x B18.4 cm x D2.3 cm 839 g
- Gewicht: 839
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