Title: New York recentered : building the metropolis from the shore /
Authors: Schlichting, Kara Murphy
Year: 2019
Subjects: City planning New York (State) New York History; City planning New York (State) New York History; Cities and towns New York (State) New York Growth.; Urban ecology (Sociology) New York (State) New York History.; Cities and towns Growth; City planning; Urban ecology (Sociology); HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); New York (N.Y.) History; New York (State) New York
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.