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The French architect Le Corbusier once described New York as "a magnificent catastrophe." Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis"' New York has faced the most... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0231178344
ISBN13:9780231178341
Release Date:October 2016
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:512 Pages
Weight:3.15 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 8.7" x 9.4"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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History of Housing in New York
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
If you can only buy one book about housing in the USA (this isn't just for those interested in NYC), this is the one to buy. It makes terrific reading just as an evolving narrative -- how many books on housing can one say that about? From the earliest dwellings to highrise towers in the park, the book tackles important social and design trends. Robert Moses of course comes in for a bow but all that underpinned his vast reshaping of NYC is detailed. You want floor plans? It's got floorplans galore. My one quibble is that it ends in the early 90s and so much as happened since then. Time to write a companion book, Professor Plunz.
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