New York Recentered : Building the Metropolis from the Shore
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Historical Studies of Urban America
ISBN-10
022661302X
ISBN-13
9780226613024
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 10th, 2019
Print length
328 Pages
Weight
598 grams
Dimensions
16.30 x 23.80 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
History of the AmericasUrban communitiesGeography
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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.
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