New York Recentered - Building the Metropolis From the Shore

Informationen zum Autor Kara Murphy Schlichting is assistant professor of history at Queens College, City University of New York. Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Kara Murphy Schlichting, Kara Murphy Schlichting
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780226613024
• ISBN: 978-0-226-61302-4
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Historical Studies of Urban Am; Historical Studies of Urban America; Historical Studies of Urban Am
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; New York, New York City, Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, History of the Americas, Urban communities