Page, Max.

The creative destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940 / Max Page.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.

xiv, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Historical studies of urban America

"Against the dominant motif of a naturally expanding metropolis, Page argues that the early-twentieth-century city was dominated by the politics of destruction and rebuilding that became the hallmark of modern urbanism." "The oxymoron "creative destruction" suggests the tensions that are at the heart of urban life: between stability and change, between particular places and undifferentiated spaces, between market forces and planning controls, and between the "natural" and "unnatural" in city growth. Page investigates these cultural counter weights through case studies of Manhattan's development, with depictions ranging from private real estate development along Fifth Avenue to Jacob Riis's slum clearance efforts on the Lower East Side, from the elimination of street trees to the efforts to save City Hall from demolition. Contrary to the popular sense of New York as an ahistorical city - the past as recalled by powerful citizens - was in fact, at the heart of defining how the city would be built."--Jacket.

0226644685 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226644684 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226644693
9780226644691

City planning New York (State) New York History 20th century.
Urbanisme New York (État) New York Histoire 20e siècle.
City planning
Economic history
Social conditions
Stedenbouw.
Sloop (bouwkunde, stedenbouw)
Stadsvernieuwing.
Urbanisme États-Unis New York (N.Y.)
Villes Rénovation États-Unis New York (N.Y.)
New York (N.Y.) Social conditions.
New York (N.Y.) Economic conditions.
New York (N.Y.) Conditions sociales.
New York (N.Y.) Conditions économiques.
New York (State) New York
New York (N.Y.) District de Manhattan.

History
Books.

Historical studies of urban America.

Location: Library main 209389
Call No.: HT168.N5 P3 1999
Status: Available