New York Recentered: Building the Metropolis from the Shore - Couverture rigide

Schlichting, Kara Murphy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 022661302X ISBN 13 : 9780226613024

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kara Murphy Schlichting is assistant professor of history at Queens College, City University of New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 022661302X
• ISBN 13: 9780226613024
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 328
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• Personne responsable: non disponible