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Hood, Clifton

 
9780801852442: 722 Miles: Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0801852447 ISBN 13 : 9780801852442
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995

Synopsis

As the population of New York - and specifically Manhattan - grew throughout the 19th century, boundaries grew strained and surface transportation increasingly difficult. However, through the vision and financial backing of a handful of wealthy investors, by the early part of the 20th-century New Yorkers were living in the outlying boroughs of The Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn, and commuting across the rivers into Manhattan on a system of public transportation that in scope is still unrivalled. In this text Clifton Hood traces the history of the New York City subway system - the planners and powerbrokers, the politics and the economics that surrounded the enterprise.

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À propos de l'auteur

Clifton Hoodis assistant professor of history at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. He was formerly a curator of the LaGuardia Archives at LaGuardia College, City University of New York.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801852447
ISBN 13 
9780801852442
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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