Building Manhattan

Building Manhattan
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Publisher : Viking Books for Young Readers
Total Pages : 40
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000065048658
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Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Building Manhattan by : Laura Vila

The story of the building of Manhattan, from a small quiet island to the bustling city it is today.

Building the Skyline

Building the Skyline
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 457
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ISBN-10 : 9780199344383
ISBN-13 : 0199344388
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Building the Skyline by : Jason M. Barr

The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world. But how and why did it form? Much has been written about the city's architecture and its general history, but little work has explored the economic forces that created the skyline. In Building the Skyline, Jason Barr chronicles the economic history of the Manhattan skyline. In the process, he debunks some widely held misconceptions about the city's history. Starting with Manhattan's natural and geological history, Barr moves on to how these formations influenced early land use and the development of neighborhoods, including the dense tenement neighborhoods of Five Points and the Lower East Side, and how these early decisions eventually impacted the location of skyscrapers built during the Skyscraper Revolution at the end of the 19th century. Barr then explores the economic history of skyscrapers and the skyline, investigating the reasons for their heights, frequencies, locations, and shapes. He discusses why skyscrapers emerged downtown and why they appeared three miles to the north in midtown-but not in between the two areas. Contrary to popular belief, this was not due to the depths of Manhattan's bedrock, nor the presence of Grand Central Station. Rather, midtown's emergence was a response to the economic and demographic forces that were taking place north of 14th Street after the Civil War. Building the Skyline also presents the first rigorous investigation of the causes of the building boom during the Roaring Twenties. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the boom was largely a rational response to the economic growth of the nation and city. The last chapter investigates the value of Manhattan Island and the relationship between skyscrapers and land prices. Finally, an Epilogue offers policy recommendations for a resilient and robust future skyline.

Seeking New York

Seeking New York
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 1910258008
ISBN-13 : 9781910258002
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Seeking New York by : Tom Miller

Based on the popular blog Daytonian in Manhattan, 'Seeking New York' investigates the back stories of Manhattan's architecture and monuments. Alongside the expected account of architects, dates and styles, it reveals the human history of the buildings and statues: the scandals, the tribulations, the joys and achievements, the humanity, indeed, of the New Yorkers who lived within these walls.

New York Recentered

New York Recentered
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 329
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ISBN-10 : 9780226613161
ISBN-13 : 022661316X
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis New York Recentered by : Kara Murphy Schlichting

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.

The Building of Manhattan

The Building of Manhattan
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 164
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ISBN-10 : 9780486135908
ISBN-13 : 048613590X
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis The Building of Manhattan by : Donald A. Mackay

Meticulously accurate line drawings and fascinating text explain construction above and below ground, including excavating subway lines and building bridges and skyscrapers. Hundreds of illustrations reveal intricate details of construction techniques.

The Party Upstairs

The Party Upstairs
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9781984880277
ISBN-13 : 1984880276
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The Party Upstairs by : Lee Conell

An electrifying debut novel that unfolds in the course of a single day inside one genteel New York City apartment building, as tensions between the building's super and his grown-up daughter spark a crisis that will, by day's end, change everything. Ruby has a strange relationship to privilege. She grew up the super's daughter in the basement of an Upper West Side co-op that gets more gentrified with each passing year. Though not economically privileged herself, her close childhood friendship with Caroline, the daughter of affluent tenants, and the mere fact of living in such a wealthy neighborhood, close to her beloved Natural History Museum, brought her certain advantages, even expectations. Naturally Ruby followed her dreams and took out loans to attend a prestigious small liberal arts college and explore her interest in art. But now, out of school for a while, she is no closer to her dream job, or anything resembling it, and she's been forced by circumstances to do the last thing she wanted to do: move back in with her parents, back into the basement. And Caroline is throwing one of her parties tonight, in her father's glorious penthouse apartment, a party Ruby looks forward to and dreads in equal measure. With a thriller's narrative control, The Party Upstairs distills worlds of wisdom about families, great expectations, and the hidden violence of class into the gripping, darkly witty story of a single fateful day inside the Manhattan co-op Ruby calls home. Told from the alternating points of view of Ruby and her father, the novel builds from the spark of an early morning argument between them to the ultimate conflagration to which it leads by day's end. By the time the ashes have cooled, the façade that masks the building's power structure will have burned away, and no party will be left unscathed.

Twenty Minutes in Manhattan

Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
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Publisher : North Point Press
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9780865477582
ISBN-13 : 0865477582
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Twenty Minutes in Manhattan by : Michael Sorkin

Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn't in a hurry, and he never ignores his surroundings. Instead, he pays careful, close attention. And in Twenty Minutes in Manhattan, he explains what he sees, what he imagines, what he knows—giving us extraordinary access to the layers of history, the feats of engineering and artistry, and the intense social drama that take place along a simple twenty-minute walk.

Luxury Apartment Houses of Manhattan

Luxury Apartment Houses of Manhattan
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 0486273709
ISBN-13 : 9780486273709
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Luxury Apartment Houses of Manhattan by : Andrew Alpern

Lavishly illustrated volume provides detailed mini-histories of the Gramercy, Ansonia, Hotel des Artistes, Joseph Pulitzer's palatial residence, and many other luxurious lodgings. 175 illustrations — many from private sources — depict interiors and exteriors. Introduction. Index.

Uniform Mechanical Code

Uniform Mechanical Code
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 319
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:18317399
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Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

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A History of New York in 27 Buildings

A History of New York in 27 Buildings
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781620409817
ISBN-13 : 162040981X
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis A History of New York in 27 Buildings by : Sam Roberts

From the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times--the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it. As New York is poised to celebrate its four hundredth anniversary, New York Times correspondent Sam Roberts tells the story of the city through bricks, glass, wood, and mortar, revealing why and how it evolved into the nation's biggest and most influential. From the seven hundred thousand or so buildings in New York, Roberts selects twenty-seven that, in the past four centuries, have been the most emblematic of the city's economic, social, and political evolution. He describes not only the buildings and how they came to be, but also their enduring impact on the city and its people and how the consequences of the construction often reverberated around the world. A few structures, such as the Empire State Building, are architectural icons, but Roberts goes beyond the familiar with intriguing stories of the personalities and exploits behind the unrivaled skyscraper's construction. Some stretch the definition of buildings, to include the city's oldest bridge and the landmark Coney Island Boardwalk. Others offer surprises: where the United Nations General Assembly first met; a hidden hub of global internet traffic; a nondescript factory that produced billions of dollars of currency in the poorest neighborhood in the country; and the buildings that triggered the Depression and launched the New Deal. With his deep knowledge of the city and penchant for fascinating facts, Roberts brings to light the brilliant architecture, remarkable history, and bright future of the greatest city in the world.