World Cities New York
Series: World Cities Series
Publisher: Academy Press
Published: June 1, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780471489450
First sentence: The essential architecture of New York emerges from three distinct structures: the grid, the climacteric of the 18th-century republican enlightenment; the park, the grandest demonstration of bourgeois sentimentalism; and lastly, the highways, bridges, mass transit and mass housing of 20th-century progress.