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Author : Bruce Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1873913176
Chronicling the architectural evolution of the city of New York, Marshall explores the majestic history of the 'Big Apple', as well as looking at the visionaries whose stamp it bears today.
Author : Kara Murphy Schlichting
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226613161
The history of New York City’s urban development often centers on titanic municipal figures like Robert Moses and on prominent inner Manhattan sites like Central Park. New York Recentered boldly shifts the focus to the city’s geographic edges—the coastlines and waterways—and to the small-time unelected locals who quietly shaped the modern city. Kara Murphy Schlichting details how the vernacular planning done by small businessmen and real estate operators, performed independently of large scale governmental efforts, refigured marginal locales like Flushing Meadows and the shores of Long Island Sound and the East River in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The result is a synthesis of planning history, environmental history, and urban history that recasts the story of New York as we know it.
Author : Tom Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1910258008
Based on the popular blog Daytonian in Manhattan, 'Seeking New York' investigates the back stories of Manhattan's architecture and monuments. Alongside the expected account of architects, dates and styles, it reveals the human history of the buildings and statues: the scandals, the tribulations, the joys and achievements, the humanity, indeed, of the New Yorkers who lived within these walls.
Author : Sarah Bradford Landau,Carl W. Condit
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300077394
The invention of the New York skyscraper is one of the most fascinating developments in the history of architecture. This authoritative book chronicles the history of New York's first skyscrapers, challenging conventional wisdom that it was in Chicago and not New York that the skyscraper was born. 206 illustrations.
Author : David Stravitz
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568983549
The Chrysler building is surely the jewel in the crown of New York City's skyline. Completed in 1930, the 77-story Art Deco skyscraper quickly became the symbol of big city glamour. *These never-before-seen photos illustrate the day-by-day construction of this American icon. 170 photos.
Author : Jason M. Barr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199344383
The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world. But how and why did it form? Much has been written about the city's architecture and its general history, but little work has explored the economic forces that created the skyline. In Building the Skyline, Jason Barr chronicles the economic history of the Manhattan skyline. In the process, he debunks some widely held misconceptions about the city's history. Starting with Manhattan's natural and geological history, Barr moves on to how these formations influenced early land use and the development of neighborhoods, including the dense tenement neighborhoods of Five Points and the Lower East Side, and how these early decisions eventually impacted the location of skyscrapers built during the Skyscraper Revolution at the end of the 19th century. Barr then explores the economic history of skyscrapers and the skyline, investigating the reasons for their heights, frequencies, locations, and shapes. He discusses why skyscrapers emerged downtown and why they appeared three miles to the north in midtown-but not in between the two areas. Contrary to popular belief, this was not due to the depths of Manhattan's bedrock, nor the presence of Grand Central Station. Rather, midtown's emergence was a response to the economic and demographic forces that were taking place north of 14th Street after the Civil War. Building the Skyline also presents the first rigorous investigation of the causes of the building boom during the Roaring Twenties. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the boom was largely a rational response to the economic growth of the nation and city. The last chapter investigates the value of Manhattan Island and the relationship between skyscrapers and land prices. Finally, an Epilogue offers policy recommendations for a resilient and robust future skyline.
Author : Elizabeth Mann
Publisher : Mikaya Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781931414067
Discusses the history, design, and construction of New York City's Empire State Building.
Author : Gail Fenske
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226241418
Once the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Building is noted for its striking but incongruous synthesis of Beaux-Arts architecture, fanciful Gothic ornamentation, and audacious steel-framed engineering. Here, in the first history of this great urban landmark, Gail Fenske argues that its design serves as a compelling lens through which to view the distinctive urban culture of Progressive-era New York. Fenske shows here that the building’s multiplicity of meanings reflected the cultural contradictions that defined New York City’s modernity. For Frank Woolworth—founder of the famous five-and-dime store chain—the building served as a towering trademark, for advocates of the City Beautiful movement it suggested a majestic hotel de ville, for technological enthusiasts it represented the boldest of experiments in vertical construction, and for tenants it provided an evocative setting for high-style consumption. Tourists, meanwhile, experienced a spectacular sightseeing destination and avant-garde artists discovered a twentieth-century future. In emphasizing this faceted significance, Fenske illuminates the process of conceiving, financing, and constructing skyscrapers as well as the mass phenomena of consumerism, marketing, news media, and urban spectatorship that surround them. As the representative example of the skyscraper as a “cathedral of commerce,” the Woolworth Building remains a commanding presence in the skyline of lower Manhattan, and the generously illustrated Skyscraper and the City is a worthy testament to its importance in American culture.
Author : Joanne Abel Goldman
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 1557530955
As new theories on the transmission of disease heightened concerns over public health and urban sanitation, physicians and professional engineers pressured the city to provide comprehensive sewage facilities. The locally oriented Common Council resisted the effort because it would entail the creation of administrative bodies that would have the authority to make city-wide decisions.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030611271
Author : Clifton Hood
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0801880548
When it first opened on October 27, 1904, the New York City subway ran twenty-two miles from City Hall to 145th Street and Lenox Avenue—the longest stretch ever built at one time. From that initial route through the completion of the IND or Independent Subway line in the 1940s, the subway grew to cover 722 miles—long enough to reach from New York to Chicago. In this definitive history, Clifton Hood traces the complex and fascinating story of the New York City subway system, one of the urban engineering marvels of the twentieth century. For the subway's centennial the author supplies a new foreward explaining that now, after a century, "we can see more clearly than ever that this rapid transit system is among the twentieth century's greatest urban achievements."
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Public buildings and grounds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110730046
Author : Donald M. Reynolds
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994-04-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015032522909
From the reviews of the first edition of Architecture of New York City… "It should provide joy to anyone even vaguely interested in this city and its artifacts.… It is very likely to turn them into enthusiasts." —New York Times Book Review "…weaves the little-known stories of 80 buildings and landmarks into a colorful tapestry of New York’s whirlwind history.… This richly illustrated guide can be read from beginning to end with great pleasure." —Publishers Weekly "…Reynolds takes a new look at the older glories of New York. The architecture is freshly seen and is clearly researched. Reynolds’ splendid photographs present highly original views of familiar (and not so familiar) important structures and sites." —Adolph Placzek, former president of the Society of Architectural Historians The history of New York City is a rich pageant of culture, commerce, social change, and human drama stretching back five hundred years. And when we know where to look for it, it is all there for us to see, vividly etched into the cityscape. Now in this celebration of New York’s architecture, Donald Martin Reynolds helps us to see and appreciate, as never before, the city’s monuments and masterpieces, and to hear the tales they have to tell. With the help of nearly 200 striking photographs (20 of them new to this edition), Dr. Reynolds takes us on an unforgettable tour of five centuries of architectural change and innovation—from 16th-century Dutch canals and 18th-century farmhouses, to the elevator buildings of the 1870s (precursors of skyscrapers) and the Art Deco, Bauhaus, and Post-modern buildings that make up New York City’s celebrated skyline. Floor by floor stone by stone, detail by detail Dr. Reynolds lovingly describes 90 of the city’s most striking buildings, bridges, parks, and places. He tells us when, why, and how they were built and who built them, and in the process, he evokes the illustrious and exciting history of this restless, ceaselessly seductive metropolis.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030620710
Author : U. S. Fire Administration,U. S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency
Publisher : FEMA
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This body of work provides detailed information on the nature of the fire problem for policymakers who must decide on allocations of resources between fire and other pressing problems, and within the fire service to improve codes and code enforcement, training, public fire education, building technology, and other related areas.
