722 Miles: Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York - Couverture souple

Hood, Clifton

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.

A propos du livre

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.

Détails de l'édition

• 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: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible