Main entry:

Revell, Keith D., 1963-

Title & Author:

Building Gotham : civic culture and public policy in New York City, 1898-1938 / Keith D. Revell.

Publication:

Baltimore, Md. ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Description:

x, 327 pages : illustrations

Notes:
Introduction. Conceiving the new metropolis : expertise, public policy, and the problem of civic culture in New York City -- Private infrastructure and public policy : "The public be pleased". Railroad planning, engineering culture, and the promise of quasi-scientific voluntarism. Beyond voluntarism : the Interstate Commerce Commission, the railroads, and freight planning for New York harbor -- Public infrastructure, local autonomy, and private wealth : buccaneer bureaucrats, physical interdependence, and free riders : building the underground city. Taxing, spending, and borrowing : expanding public claims on private wealth -- Urban planning, private rights, and public power. City planning versus the law : zoning the metropolis. "They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with brushes of comets' hair" : regional planning and the metropolitan dilemma. Conclusion "An almost mystical unity" : interdependence and the public interest in the modern metropolis.

ISBN:

0801882060 (paperback)
9780801882067 (paperback)

Subject:

City planning New York (State) New York.
Urban policy New York (State) New York.
City and town life New York (State) New York.
Politique urbaine New York (État) New York.
Vie urbaine New York (État) New York.
City and town life.
City planning.
Urban policy.
New York (N.Y.) History 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) Histoire 20e siècle.
New York (State) New York.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 225917
Call No.: HT168.N5 R48 2002
Status: Available