History of Housing in New York City

Name: History of Housing in New York City
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ISBN: 9780231062978

ISBN-10: 0231062974

ISBN-13: 9780231062978

Edition: N/A

Authors: Richard Plunz, Kenneth Jackson

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The French architect Le Corbusier once described New York as "a magnificent catastrophe." Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis"' New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innovation and reform. The horrors of the tenement were perfected in New York at the same time that the very rich were building palaces along Fifth Avenue; yet public housing for the poor also originated in New York, as did government subsidies for middle-class housing. A History of Housing in New York City traces New York's housing development from 1850 to the present in text and profuse illustrations. Richard…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 4/29/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 462
Size: 8.75" wide x 9.20" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.838
Language: English

Richard Plunz is an architect and a historian teaching at Columbia University where he has served as the Chairman of the Division of Architecture. He recently edited Design and the Public Good: Selected Writings by Serge Chermayeff, 1933-1980.--