Title & Author:

The greatest grid : the master plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 / edited by Hilary Ballon.

Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012.

Description:

226 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 x 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-222) and index.
Before the Grid -- Reflection: Michael R. Bloomberg -- The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 -- Surveying the City -- Opening Streets -- Reflection: James Traub -- Selling Lots : From Land to Real Estate -- Reflection: Rafael Viñoly -- The Public Realm : Squares, Parks and Avenues -- The Development of the East Side -- Reflection: Alexander Garvin -- Improving the West Side -- Counterpoint : Broadway -- Rethinking the Grid Above 155th Street -- Reflection: Wendy Evans Joseph -- Modern Reforms -- Reflection: Amanda M. Burden -- Moving on the Grid -- Reflection: Edward Glaeser -- Urban Paradigm : The Grid in Contemporary Thought -- About the Museum of the City of New York.

Summary:

"Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York celebrating the bicentennial of the 1811 Commissioners' Plan of Manhattan, this volume does more than memorialize such a visionary effort, it serves as an enduring reference full of rare images and information."--Page 4 of cover.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780231159906 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0231159900 (cloth ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

City planning New York (State) New York History.
Grid plans (City planning) New York (State) New York.
City blocks New York (State) New York History.
Streets New York (State) New York History.
Plans en damier (Urbanisme) New York (État) New York.
Îlots (Urbanisme) New York (État) New York Histoire.
Rues New York (État) New York Histoire.
Buildings.
City blocks.
City planning.
Grid plans (City planning)
Historical geography.
Streets.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) History.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Historical geography Maps.
New York (State) New York.
New York (State) New York Manhattan.

Form/genre:

Atlases.
atlases.
History.
Maps.
Atlas.

Added entries:

Ballon, Hilary.

Master plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 276392
Call No.: BIB 210989
Status: Available