Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940

Name: Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940
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ISBN: 9780226644684

ISBN-10: 0226644685

ISBN-13: 9780226644684

Edition: 1999

Authors: Max Page

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Argues that early-20th-century cities were dominated by the politics of destruction and rebuilding that became the hallmark of modern urbanism. This text analyzes the process of urban development, using Manhattan as a case study.

Book details

List price: $43.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/15/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 317
Size: 9.50" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments



The Provisional City



Fifth Avenue's "Restless Renewals"


Real Estate Development Along the "Spine of Gotham"


The "Via Appia of Opulence": Sources of Fifth Avenue's Development


A Compelling Force: The Speculative Market in Space


Real Estate Stories


Protecting Property


Commerce without Commercialism: The Fifth Avenue Association and the Conservation of the Avenue


Zoning the Avenue, Zoning New York


Conclusion: The Progress of Preservation



The Foul Core Of New York


The Rise of Slum Clearance as Housing Reform Jacob Riis and the "Leprous Houses" of Mulberry Bend New York's Real Napoleon III


Decongestant: Embracing Slum Clearance in the 1920s and 1930s


Conclusion: "Cataclysmic" Reform



Priceless


Historic Preservation and the Valuing of Space"Sacred Stones": Early Preservation in New York


St. John's Chapel"Life Thread" of the City "Priceless"



"A Vanished City Is Restored"


Inventing and Displaying the Past at the Museum of the City of New York


New York's "Attic" A "Visualized Biography" Collecting and Selling a City


Conclusion: "New York's Memory"



Uses Of The Axe


Toward a Treeless New York


Natural New York A Bit of God's Country: Central Park Tree Battles


Tree Culture: The Decline and Rebirth of Street Trees


The Spirits of the Trees



Pro Urbis Amore


I. N. Phelps Stokes and the Iconography of Manhattan Island Speaking of Old New York...


Remembrance of Things New York: Producing the Iconography


Frozen City: Photography and Memory in the Iconography


Acquiring New YorkA "Chaos of Memories"



Landscapes Of Memory And Amnesia


Notes


Index