The History Of Municipal Ownership Of Land On Manhattan Island To The Beginning Of Sales By The Commissioners Of The Sinking Fund In 1844

Author : George Ashton Black
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 1437045073

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Author : George Ashton Black
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Government purchasing of real property
ISBN : UCD:31175016755707

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The History of Municipal Ownership of Land on Manhattan Island by George Ashton Black Pdf

Author : George Ashton Black
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Public lands
ISBN : LCCN:12028238

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The History of Municipal Ownership of Land on Manhattan Island to the Beginning of Sales by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund in 1844 by George Ashton Black Pdf

Author : George Ashton Black
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290907781

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The History of Municipal Ownership of Land on Manhattan Island to the Beginning of Sales by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund In 1844 by George Ashton Black Pdf

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Author : George Ashton Black
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0243165722

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The History of Municipal Ownership of Land on Manhattan Island by George Ashton Black Pdf

Excerpt from The History of Municipal Ownership of Land on Manhattan Island: To the Beginning of Sales by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund in 1844 With his courteous permission, I have examined these records seriatim, and most of the statements of fact which I make are derived from them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : George Ashton 1855 Black
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1362998435

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HIST OF MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP OF by George Ashton 1855 Black Pdf

Author : Cortlandt Field Bishop,Delos Franklin Wilcox,Frederick Augustus Wood,George Ashton Black,George Louis Beer,Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich,John Dean Goss,Max West,Samuel Whitney Dunscomb,Victor Rosewater,Walter Francis Willcox,William Zebina Ripley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 1893
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : LCCN:04001842

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The History of Municipal Ownership of Land on Manhattan Island by Cortlandt Field Bishop,Delos Franklin Wilcox,Frederick Augustus Wood,George Ashton Black,George Louis Beer,Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich,John Dean Goss,Max West,Samuel Whitney Dunscomb,Victor Rosewater,Walter Francis Willcox,William Zebina Ripley Pdf

Author : George Ashton Black
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Municipal ownership
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU56099797

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The History of Municipal Ownership of Land on Manhattan Island to the Beginning of Sales by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund in 1844 by George Ashton Black Pdf

Author : I.N. Phelps Stokes
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 807 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : History
ISBN : 9785871799505

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The iconography of Manhattan Island by I.N. Phelps Stokes Pdf

The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 compiled from original sources and illustrated by photo-intaglio reproductions of important maps, plans, views, and documents in public and private collections

Author : George A. Black
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0404510035

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History of Municipal Ownership of Land on Manhattan Island to the Beginning of Sales by the Commissioner of the Sinking Fund in 1844 by George A. Black Pdf

Author : Appleton Prentiss Clark Griffin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : United States
ISBN : NYPL:33433081785085

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Index of the Literature of American Local History by Appleton Prentiss Clark Griffin Pdf

Author : Jason M. Barr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199344383

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Building the Skyline by Jason M. Barr Pdf

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 : Marguerite Holloway
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393089806

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The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor by Marguerite Holloway Pdf

"Randel is endlessly fascinating, and Holloway’s biography tells his life with great skill." —Steve Weinberg, USA Today John Randel Jr. (1787–1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as for his bombast and irascibility, Randel was central to Manhattan’s development but died in financial ruin. Telling Randel’s engrossing and dramatic life story for the first time, this eye-opening biography introduces an unheralded pioneer of American engineering and mapmaking. Charged with “gridding” what was then an undeveloped, hilly island, Randel recorded the contours of Manhattan down to the rocks on its shores. He was obsessed with accuracy and steeped in the values of the Enlightenment, in which math and science promised dominion over nature. The result was a series of maps, astonishing in their detail and precision, which undergird our knowledge about the island today. During his varied career Randel created surveying devices, designed an early elevated subway, and proposed a controversial alternative route for the Erie Canal—winning him admirers and enemies. The Measure of Manhattan is more than just the life of an unrecognized engineer. It is about the ways in which surveying and cartography changed the ground beneath our feet. Bringing Randel’s story into the present, Holloway travels with contemporary surveyors and scientists trying to envision Manhattan as a wild island once again. Illustrated with dozens of historical images and antique maps, The Measure of Manhattan is an absorbing story of a fascinating man that captures the era when Manhattan—indeed, the entire country—still seemed new, the moment before canals and railroads helped draw a grid across the American landscape.

Author : W.A. Robson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 903 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135672409

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Great Cities of the World by W.A. Robson Pdf

The giant city of today is a unique phenomenon. Never before have such acute problems of government, the provision of essential services, planning, social life, and civilized living arisen from uncontrolled urbanization. In the West and in the East, in the more developed and in the less developed countries, in capitalist and communist states, the great metropolis represents a problem of the first importance which challenges the statesman, the official, the town planner, the political scientist, the sociologist and, above all, the intelligent citizen. The editor has here assembled an authoritative series of studies describing the growth, significance, government, politics adn planning of twenty-four great cities of the world. They show how these widely scattered cities faced essentially similar problems. Each study deals with the actual working of one city in the 1950s, how its elective adn executive bodies are organized, the kind of political forces which motivate their activities, the scope and character of the municipal services, how they are finiance. The cities dealt with include Bombay, Amsterdam, Moscow, Montreal, Stockholm, Rome, New York, London, Sydney and Tokyo. This book was first published in 1954.

Author : William A. Robson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 903 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-21
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 9780415417631

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Great Cities of the World by William A. Robson Pdf

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.