A History Of Real Estate Building And Architecture In New York City During The Last Quarter Of A Century
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A History Of Real Estate Building And Architecture In New York City During The Last Quarter Of A Century
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
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A History Of Real Estate Building And Architecture In New York City During The Last Quarter Of A Century
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
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Empire City
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Author : David M. Scobey
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2002
Empire City written by David M. Scobey and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Architecture categories.
For generations, New Yorkers have joked about "The City's" interminable tearing down and building up. The city that the whole world watches seems to be endlessly remaking itself. When the locals and the rest of the world say "New York," they mean Manhattan, a crowded island of commercial districts and residential neighborhoods, skyscrapers and tenements, fabulously rich and abjectly poor cheek by jowl. Of course, it was not always so; New York's metamorphosis from compact port to modern metropolis occurred during the mid-nineteenth century. Empire City tells the story of the dreams that inspired the changes in the landscape and the problems that eluded solution.Author David Scobey paints a remarkable panorama of New York's uneven development, a city-building process careening between obsessive calculation and speculative excess. Envisioning a new kind of national civilization, "bourgeois urbanists" attempted to make New York the nation's pre-eminent city. Ultimately, they created a mosaic of grand improvements, dynamic change, and environmental disorder. Empire City sets the stories of the city's most celebrated landmarks--Central Park, the Brooklyn Bridge, the downtown commercial center--within the context of this new ideal of landscape design and a politics of planned city building. Perhaps such an ambitious project for guiding growth, overcoming spatial problems, and uplifting the public was bound to fail; still, it grips the imagination.
Building The Skyline
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Author : Jason M. Barr
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Building The Skyline written by Jason M. Barr and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Architecture categories.
Manhattan's natural history -- Mannahatta to Manhattan: settlement to grid plan -- Land use before the Civil War -- The tenements and the skyline -- The economics of skyscraper height -- Measuring the skyline -- The bedrock myth -- The birth of Midtown -- Edifice complex? The cause of the 1920s building boom -- What's Manhattan worth? 150 years of land values
Race And Real Estate
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Author : Kevin McGruder
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-02
Race And Real Estate written by Kevin McGruder and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-02 with History categories.
Through the lens of real estate transactions from 1890 to 1920, Kevin McGruder offers an innovative perspective on Harlem's history and reveals the complex interactions between whites and African Americans at a critical time of migration and development. During these decades Harlem saw a dramatic increase in its African American population, and although most histories speak only of the white residents who met these newcomers with hostility, this book uncovers a range of reactions. Although some white Harlem residents used racially restrictive real estate practices to inhibit the influx of African Americans into the neighborhood, others believed African Americans had a right to settle in a place they could afford and helped facilitate sales. These years saw Harlem change not into a "ghetto," as many histories portray, but into a community that became a symbol of the possibilities and challenges black populations faced across the nation. This book also introduces alternative reasons behind African Americans' migration to Harlem, showing that they came not to escape poverty but to establish a lasting community. Owning real estate was an essential part of this plan, along with building churches, erecting youth-serving facilities, and gaining power in public office. In providing a fuller, more nuanced history of Harlem, McGruder adds greater depth in understanding its development and identity as both an African American and a biracial community.
New York City Architecture
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Author : Historic American Buildings Survey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
New York City Architecture written by Historic American Buildings Survey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Architecture categories.
From Ascending Rooms To Express Elevators
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Author : Lee Edward Gray
language : en
Publisher: Elevator World Inc
Release Date : 2002
From Ascending Rooms To Express Elevators written by Lee Edward Gray and has been published by Elevator World Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Elevators categories.
The Exposed City
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Author : Nadia Amoroso
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-04-30
The Exposed City written by Nadia Amoroso and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-30 with Architecture categories.
There is a vast amount of information about a city which is invisible to the human eye – crime levels, transportation patterns, cell phone use and air quality to name just a few. If a city was able to be defined by these characteristics, what form would it take? How could it be mapped? Nadia Amoroso tackles these questions by taking statistical urban data and exploring how they could be transformed into innovative new maps. The "unseen" elements of the city are examined in groundbreaking images throughout the book, which are complemented by interviews with Winy Maas and James Corner, comments by Richard Saul Wurman, and sections by the SENSEable City Lab group and Mark Aubin, co-founder of Google Earth.
Skyscrapers
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Author : George H. Douglas
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2004-08-19
Skyscrapers written by George H. Douglas and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-19 with History categories.
This history of skyscrapers examines how these tall buildings affected the cityscape and the people who worked in, lived in, and visited them. Much of the focus is rightly on the architects who had the vision to design and build America's skyscrapers, but attention is also given to the steelworkers who built them, the financiers who put up the money, and the daredevils who attempt to "conquer" them in some inexplicable pursuit of fame. The impact of the skyscraper on popular culture, particularly film and literature, is also explored.
The Jews Of Harlem
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Author : Jeffrey S. Gurock
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2016-10-25
The Jews Of Harlem written by Jeffrey S. Gurock and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-25 with History categories.
The complete story of Jewish Harlem and its significance in American Jewish history New York Times columnist David W. Dunlap wrote a decade ago that “on the map of the Jewish Diaspora, Harlem Is Atlantis. . . . A vibrant hub of industry, artistry and wealth is all but forgotten. It is as if Jewish Harlem sank 70 years ago beneath waves of memory beyond recall.” During World War I, Harlem was the home of the second largest Jewish community in America. But in the 1920s Jewish residents began to scatter to other parts of Manhattan, to the outer boroughs, and to other cities. Now nearly a century later, Jews are returning uptown to a gentrified Harlem. The Jews of Harlem follows Jews into, out of, and back into this renowned metropolitan neighborhood over the course of a century and a half. It analyzes the complex set of forces that brought several generations of central European, East European, and Sephardic Jews to settle there. It explains the dynamics that led Jews to exit this part of Gotham as well as exploring the enduring Jewish presence uptown after it became overwhelmingly black and decidedly poor. And it looks at the beginnings of Jewish return as part of the transformation of New York City in our present era. The Jews of Harlem contributes much to our understanding of Jewish and African American history in the metropolis as it highlights the ever-changing story of America’s largest city. With The Jews of Harlem, the beginning of Dunlap’s hoped-for resurfacing of this neighborhood’s history is underway. Its contemporary story merits telling even as the memories of what Jewish Harlem once was warrants recall.