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New York, New York, New York : four decades of success, excess, and transformation / Thomas Dyja.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dyja, Thomas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Book Committee.
- Politics and government.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- New York (N.Y.)--History--20th century.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1951-.
- New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 523 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
- Summary:
- "A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City's transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city's future"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I. Renaissance
- ch. One "I Love New York" Day
- ch. Two Something It Hadn't Been
- ch. Three New York Equalize You
- ch. Four Every Night a Different Channel
- ch. Five To Lake Ladoga, and Beyond
- ch. Six The Age of the Individual
- ch. Seven Be a Card-Carrying Capitalist
- ch. Eight They Begin to Blossom
- ch. Nine The Devil and Ed Koch
- ch. Ten From Queens Come Kings!
- ch. Eleven Building the Bonfire
- II. Reconsideration
- ch. Twelve The Age of Atonement
- ch. Thirteen A Psychic Turning Point
- ch. Fourteen Dave, Do Something!
- ch. Fifteen Mayor School
- ch. Sixteen The End of the One-Tribe Nation
- ch. Seventeen You Were on Your Own
- III. Reformation
- ch. Eighteen More Like the Rest of America
- ch. Nineteen Larceny in Everyone's Heart
- ch. Twenty Cyber City
- ch. Twenty-One Whose World Is This?
- ch. Twenty-Two Heat Is Quality
- ch. Twenty-Three Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
- September 11, 2001
- IV. Reimagination
- ch. Twenty-Four The Pile, the Pit, and the Bullpen
- ch. Twenty-Five Oz Wasn't Built in a Day
- ch. Twenty-Six "B'klyn Cheers, Trembles"
- ch. Twenty-Seven Too Big to Fail
- ch. Twenty-Eight Hard Landings.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-498) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Dyja, Thomas. New York, New York, New York
- ISBN:
- 9781982149789
- 1982149787
- 9781982149796
- 1982149795
- OCLC:
- 1162986347
- Publisher Number:
- 99986861880
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