Building the Metropolis - Architecture, Construction, and Labor in New York City, 18801935

"Alexander Wood asks a deceptively simple question about New York City in its most iconic period of growth from the 1880s to the 1930s: "Who did this?" In chronicling the labor of architects, builders, contractors, and construction workers, Wood compels our attention to the physical and social challenges embodied in buildings: where did the billions of bricks, millions of feet of lumber, millions of pounds of stone, and thousands of miles of wire, pipe, and steel come from, and who arranged to use them when, where, and how they were? His answers reveal much about the local specifics but also about national and international flows of ideas and goods"--

About the author

Alexander Wood is a historian of American architecture and urbanism. He was the Helen and Robert Appel Fellow in History and Technology at the New-York Historical Society in 2021-22.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Wood, Wood Alexander
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.01.2025
• EAN: 9780226836966
• ISBN: 978-0-226-83696-6
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: Historical Studies of Urban America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, HISTORY / Social History, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, Local History, Social and cultural history, History of Architecture, History of the Americas, US Northeast: Mid-Atlantic States