Picture 1 of 1
City on a Grid: How New York Became New York by Gerard Koeppel (English) Paperba
Condition:
Postage:
Located in: Melbourne, Australia
Delivery:
Estimated between Fri, 24 May and Mon, 3 Jun to 43230
Returns:
Coverage:
Read item description or contact seller for details. See all detailsSee all details on coverage
(Not eligible for eBay purchase protection programmes)
Shop with confidence
Seller information
Registered as a Business Seller
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:134953096560
Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN-13
- 9780306825491
- Book Title
- City on a Grid
- ISBN
- 9780306825491
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- City on a Grid: How New York Became New York
- Item Height
- 233mm
- Publisher
- Hachette Books
- Item Width
- 155mm
- Subject
- History
- Item Weight
- 392g
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
About this product
Product Information
You either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. Created in 1811 by a three-man commission featuring headstrong Founding Father Gouverneur Morris, the plan called for a dozen parallel avenues crossing at right angles with many dozens of parallel streets in an unbroken grid. Hills and valleys, streams and ponds, forests and swamps were invisible to the grid; so too were country villages, roads, farms, estates, and generations of property lines. All would disappear as the crosshatch fabric of the grid overspread the island: a heavy greatcoat on the land, the dense undergarment of the future city. No other grid in Western civilisation was so large and uniform as the one ordained in 1811. Not without reason. When the grid plan was announced, New York was just under two hundred years old, an overgrown town at the southern tip of Manhattan, a notorious jumble of streets laid at the whim of landowners. To bring order beyond the chaos--and good real estate to market--the street planning commission came up with a monolithic grid for the rest of the island. Mannahattan - the native island of hills - became a place of rectangles, in thousands of blocks on the flattened landscape, and many more thousands of right-angled buildings rising in vertical mimicry. The Manhattan grid has been called a disaster of urban planning and the most courageous act of prediction in Western civilization. However one feels about it, the most famous urban design of a living city defines its daily life. This is its story
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hachette Books
ISBN-13
9780306825491
eBay Product ID (ePID)
233178729
Product Key Features
Publication Name
City on a Grid: How New York Became New York
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
233mm
Item Width
155mm
Item Weight
392g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Item description from the seller
Business seller information
Value Added Tax Number:
- AU 82107909133
- GB 293967539
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:134953096560
Postage and handling
Item location:
Melbourne, Australia
Post to:
Worldwide
Excludes:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Anguilla, Belarus, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Ghana, Guadeloupe, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ireland, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Syria, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U.S.), Western Sahara, Western Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
| Postage and handling | To | Service | Delivery*See Delivery notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free postage | United States | International Standard : tracked-no signature (7 to 15 business days) | Estimated between Fri, 24 May and Mon, 3 Jun to 43230 |
| Handling time |
|---|
| Will usually post within 10 business days of receiving cleared payment. |
| Taxes |
|---|
| Taxes may be applicable at checkout. Learn moreLearn more about paying tax on eBay purchases. |
Sales Tax for an item #134953096560
Sales Tax for an item #134953096560
Seller collects sales tax for items shipped to the following states:
| State | Sales Tax Rate |
|---|
Return policy
| After receiving the item, contact seller within |
|---|
| 30 days |
The buyer is responsible for return postage costs.
Seller feedback (1,426,923)
h***t (669)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
All good
e***8 (277)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
Delivered fast, packed well, and item is exactly as described. Perfect!
e***l (656)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
perfect, thank you!
More to explore :
- New York Maps & Atlases,
- New Yorker News Magazines in English,
- News Sporting News Magazines in English,
- News Magazines in English,
- News English Mother Earth News Magazines,
- Time News Magazines in English,
- The Economist News Magazines in English,
- News Money Magazines in English,
- News Magazines in English Newsweek,
- News Magazines in English Forbes