New York recentered : building the metropolis from the shore / Kara Murphy Schlichting.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schlichting, Kara Murphy, author.

Series:

Historical studies of urban America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban ecology (Sociology).

History.

Cities and towns.

Growth.

City planning.

New York (N.Y.)--History.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

City planning--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.

City planning--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Cities and towns--New York (State)--New York--Growth.

Urban ecology (Sociology)--New York (State)--New York--History.

Cities and towns--Growth.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Benefactor planning: Barnum's bridgeport and Steinway's Queens

Laying out the trans-Harlem city

Working-class leisure on the Upper East River and Sound

Designing a coastal playland around Long Island Sound

"They shall not pass": opposition to public leisure and state park planning

"From dumps to glory": Flushing Meadows and the New York World's Fair of 1939-1940

Epilogue: the limits of the world of tomorrow.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226613024

022661302X

OCLC:

1051684002