Building Gotham

Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 1898-1938

Autor: Keith D. Revell

Jazyk:

Väzba: Brožovaná

Vydavateľ: Johns Hopkins University Press

Dostupnosť: Skladom u dodávateľa

Odosielame za 9-15 dní

36.69 €

In 1898, the New York state legislature created Greater New York, a metropolis of three and a half m...

Informácie o knihe

Autor

Keith D. Revell

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2005

Stránok

344

EAN

9780801882067

ISBN

0801882060

Enbook ID

04709585

Vydavateľ

Johns Hopkins University Press

Hmotnosť

530

Rozmery

154 x 228 x 21

Kompletný popis

In 1898, the New York state legislature created Greater New York, a metropolis of three and a half million people, the second largest city in the world, and arguably the most diverse and complex urban environment in history. In this far-ranging study, Keith D. Revell shows how experts in engineering, law, architecture, public health, public finance, and planning learned to cope with the daunting challenges of collective living on this new scale. Engineers applied new technologies to build railroad tunnels under the Hudson River and construct aqueducts to quench the thirst of a city on the verge of water famine. Sanitarians attempted to clean up a harbor choked by millions of gallons of raw sewage. Economists experimented with new approaches to financing urban infrastructure. Architects and planners wrestled with the problems of skyscraper regulation and regional growth. These issues of city-building and institutional change involved more than the familiar push and pull of interest groups or battles between bosses, reformers, immigrants, and natives. Revell details the ways that technical values-distinctive civic culture of expertise-helped reshape ideas of community, generate new centers of public authority, and change the physical landscape of New York City. Building Gotham thus demonstrates how a group of ambitious professionals overcame the limits of traditional means of decision-making and developed the city-building practices that enabled New York to become America's first mega-city.

Mohlo by vás zaujímať

Zákazníci, ktorí si kúpili túto knihu, kúpili tiež

Najčastejšie vyhľadávané

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produkty

Produkty

Najčastejšie vyhľadávané

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produkty

Produkty

Building Gotham

Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 1898-1938

Informácie o knihe

Kompletný popis

Mohlo by vás zaujímať

Zákazníci, ktorí si kúpili túto knihu, kúpili tiež