Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape

von David Scobey

340 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

New York's metamorphosis from compact part 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 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 masaic 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 ideas of landscape design and a politics of planned city building. Perhaps such an ambitious project for guiding growth, overcoming spatial problems, and uplifting public was bound to fail; still, it grips the imagination.

• Reihe: Critical Perspectives on the P
• Themen: Geowissenschaften, Geographie, Umwelt, Planung Raumplanung Stadt- und Gemeindeplanung und -politik
• ISBN: 9781592132355
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2003
• Größe: 252 x 163 mm
• Verlag: Temple University Press