Author: Max Page
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226644691
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
"The oxymoron "creative destruction" suggests the tensions that are at the heart of urban life: between stability and change, between particular places and undifferentiated spaces, between market forces and planning controls, and between the "natural" and "unnatural" in city growth. Page investigates these cultural counter weights through case studies of Manhattan's development, with depictions ranging from private real estate development along Fifth Avenue to Jacob Riis's slum clearance efforts on the Lower East Side, from the elimination of street trees to the efforts to save City Hall from demolition. Contrary to the popular sense of New York as an ahistorical city - the past as recalled by powerful citizens - was in fact, at the heart of defining how the city would be built."--BOOK JACKET.
The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940
Author: Max Page
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226644691
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
"The oxymoron "creative destruction" suggests the tensions that are at the heart of urban life: between stability and change, between particular places and undifferentiated spaces, between market forces and planning controls, and between the "natural" and "unnatural" in city growth. Page investigates these cultural counter weights through case studies of Manhattan's development, with depictions ranging from private real estate development along Fifth Avenue to Jacob Riis's slum clearance efforts on the Lower East Side, from the elimination of street trees to the efforts to save City Hall from demolition. Contrary to the popular sense of New York as an ahistorical city - the past as recalled by powerful citizens - was in fact, at the heart of defining how the city would be built."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226644691
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
"The oxymoron "creative destruction" suggests the tensions that are at the heart of urban life: between stability and change, between particular places and undifferentiated spaces, between market forces and planning controls, and between the "natural" and "unnatural" in city growth. Page investigates these cultural counter weights through case studies of Manhattan's development, with depictions ranging from private real estate development along Fifth Avenue to Jacob Riis's slum clearance efforts on the Lower East Side, from the elimination of street trees to the efforts to save City Hall from demolition. Contrary to the popular sense of New York as an ahistorical city - the past as recalled by powerful citizens - was in fact, at the heart of defining how the city would be built."--BOOK JACKET.
Story of the War: Pictorial History of the Great Civil War
Author: John Laird Wilson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385453275
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385453275
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Writings on American History
Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association
Author: New York State Historical Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Ridpath's Universal History
Author: John Clark Ridpath
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association
A Week in Yellowstone's Thorofare
Author: Michael J. Yochim
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870718564
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The author's recounts a week-long expedition in Yellowstone's Thorofare, exploring both its natural history and his relationship with the most remote wilderness in the contiguous 48 states"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870718564
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The author's recounts a week-long expedition in Yellowstone's Thorofare, exploring both its natural history and his relationship with the most remote wilderness in the contiguous 48 states"--
The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884
Author: James Hammond Trumbull
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hartford County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hartford County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
The History of the Old Eagle School, Tredyffrin, in Chester County, Pennsylvania
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epitaphs
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This book describes the history of the Old Eagle School in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epitaphs
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This book describes the history of the Old Eagle School in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Ridpath's History of the World
Author: John Clark Ridpath
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description