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New York recentered : building the metropolis from the shore /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schlichting, Kara Murphy
Published: The University of Chicago Press,
Publisher Address: Chicago :
Publication Dates: 2019.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Historical studies of urban America
Subjects:
City planning > New York State > New York > History > 19th century
City planning > New York State > New York > History > 20th century
Cities and towns > New York State > New York > Growth
Urban ecology Sociology > New York State > New York > History
New York N.Y. > History
Carrier Form: 319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-308) and index.
ISBN: 9780226613024 (hardback) :
022661302X (hardback)
Index Number: F128
CLC: TU984.712-09
Call Number: TU984.712-09/S344
Contents: Introduction -- Benefactor planning: Barnum's bridgeport and Steinway's Queens -- Laying out the trans-Harlem city -- Working-class leisure on the Upper East River and Sound -- Designing a coastal playland around Long Island Sound -- "They shall not pass": opposition to public leisure and state park planning -- "From dumps to glory": Flushing Meadows and the New York World's Fair of 1939-1940 -- Epilogue: the limits of the world of tomorrow.

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