Title & Author:

The Landscape of modernity : essays on New York City, 1900-1940 / edited by David Ward and Olivier Zunz.

Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©1992.

Description:

xiv, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-342) and index.
Between rationalism and pluralism : creating the modern city / David Ward and Olivier Zunz -- Regulating the landscape : real estate values, city planning, and the 1916 Zoning Ordinance / Keith D. Revell -- Density and intervention : New York's planning traditions / Marc A. Weiss -- Joining New York City to the greater metropolis : the Port Authority as visionary, target of opportunity, and opportunist / Jameson M. Doig -- The regional plan and the transformation of the industrial metropolis / Robert Fishman -- Corporate identity and the New York office building : 1895-1915 / Gail Fenske and Deryck Holdsworth -- Form follows finance : the Empire State Building / Carol Willis -- Subways, transit politics, and metropolitan spatial expansion / Clifton Hood -- Sweatshop migrations : the garment industry between home and shop / Nancy L. Green -- Little Italy's decline : immigrant renters and investors in a changing city / Donna Gabaccia.
On the fringes of the city : Jewish neighborhoods in three boroughs / Deborah Dash Moore -- Cities of light, landscapes of pleasure / David Nasaw -- "The pushcart evil" / Daniel Bluestone -- Fiorello H. LaGuardia and the challenge of Democratic planning / Thomas Kessner.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

087154900X (alk. paper)
9780871549006 (alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning New York (State) New York History 20th century.
Regional planning New York (State) New York Metropolitan Area History 20th century.
Central business districts New York (State) New York History 20th century.
Regional planning New York Metropolitan Area History 20th century.
Aménagement du territoire New York, Agglomération de Histoire 20e siècle.
Centres-villes New York (État) New York Histoire 20e siècle.
Urbanisme New York (État) New York Histoire 20e siècle.
Central business districts
City planning
Regional planning
Social conditions
Stadtplanung
Städtebau
Arquitetura Paisagistica.
New York (N.Y.) Social conditions.
New York (N.Y.) Conditions sociales.
New York (State) New York
New York (State) New York Metropolitan Area
New York, NY
New York (N.Y.)
Geschichte 1900-1940

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Added entries:

Ward, David, 1938-
Zunz, Olivier.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 100368
Call No.: ID HT168.N5.L36; ID:94-B1192
Status: Available