Main entry:

Holloway, Marguerite.

Title & Author:

The measure of Manhattan : the tumultuous career and surprising legacy of John Randel Jr., cartographer, surveyor, inventor / Marguerite Holloway.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]
©2013

Description:

x, 372 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-352) and index.
Prologue: Big Rock -- In Which Reuben Skye Rose-Redwood and J.R. Lemuel Morrison Set Out To Find the Imagined City -- In Which John Randel Jr. Affixes the City to the Island -- In Which Rose-Redwood Surveys the 1811 Grid and Morrison Surveys Today's -- In Which Randel Keeps Seeking the Most Eligible Routes -- In Which Mannahatta Lifts Off -- In Which Is Described "The Ingenuity of the New" -- Epilogue: Randel's Rock.

Summary:

A portrait of the nineteenth-century architect of Manhattan's city grid shares insights into his personality while surveying the innovations that enabled the developing city of Manhattan to overcome natural obstacles to infrastructure.

ISBN:

9780393071252 (hardcover)
0393071251 (hardcover)

Subject:

Randel, John, Jr.
Randel, John, Jr. Influence.
Surveyors United States Biography.
Surveying New York (State) New York History 19th century.
City planning New York (State) New York History 19th century.
Cartographers United States Biography.
Inventors United States Biography.
Géomètres États-Unis Biographies.
Cartographes États-Unis Biographies.
Inventeurs États-Unis Biographies.
Cartographers.
City planning.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Inventors.
Surveying.
Surveyors.
Vermessung
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) History 19th century.
New York (State) New York.
New York (State) New York Manhattan.
United States.
New York- Manhattan

Form/genre:

Biography.
Biographies.
collective biographies.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282304
Call No.: BIB 219695
Status: Available