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Item specifics
- Condition
- PublishedOn
- 2012-01-20
- Title
- The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of New York: Museum of the Ci
- Artist
- Not Specified
- ISBN
- 9780231159906
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231159900
ISBN-13
9780231159906
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109260911
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Greatest Grid : the Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011
Publication Year
2012
Subject
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, United States / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
45.5 Oz
Item Length
1.2 in
Item Width
0.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2011-037599
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
307.1821609747
Synopsis
Laying out Manhattan's street grid and providing a rationale for the growth of New York was the city's first great civic enterprise, not to mention a brazenly ambitious project and major milestone in the history of city planning. The grid created the physical conditions for business and society to flourish and embodied the drive and discipline for which the city would come to be known. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York celebrating the bicentennial of the Commissioners' 1811 Plan of Manhattan, this volume does more than memorialize such a visionary effort, it serves as an enduring reference full of rare images and information. The Greatest Grid shares the history of the Commissioners' plan, incorporating archival photos and illustrations, primary documents and testimony, and magnificent maps with essential analysis. The text, written by leading historians of New York City, follows the grid's initial design, implementation, and evolution, and then speaks to its enduring influence. A foldout map, accompanied by explanatory notes, reproduces the Commissioners' original plan, and additional maps and prints chart the city's pre-1811 irregular growth patterns and local precedent for the grid's design. Constituting the first sustained examination of this subject, this text describes the social, political, and intellectual figures who were instrumental in remaking early New York, not in the image of old Europe but as a reflection of other American cities and a distinct New World sensibility. The grid reaffirmed old hierarchies while creating new opportunities for power and advancement, giving rise to the multicultural, highly networked landscape New Yorkers thrive in today.
LC Classification Number
HT168
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