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Building Gotham : Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 1898-1938 by Keith D. Revell (2005, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-100801882060
ISBN-139780801882067
eBay Product ID (ePID)44185313
Product Key Features
Number of Pages344 Pages
Publication NameBuilding Gotham : Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 1898-1938
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
SubjectUrban & Land Use Planning, Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Sociology / Urban
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Architecture, Social Science, Science, History
AuthorKeith D. Revell
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight15.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2002-000599
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsAn enjoyable, highly readable, and very detailed account... An excellent text for students and researchers to better understand the often unique and always complex set of issues and actors that initiated, implemented, or thwarted urban planning efforts in New York City., Revell, a professor of public administration, pays particular attention to the army of experts -- from engineers and architects to lawyers and financiers -- who solved the enormous problems that initially had the 'ambitious experiment in collective living' teetering on the brink of disaster... the message distilled by Revell from his study of bygone New York -- that 'outdated notions of individualism and local autonomy' can be detrimental to solving shared problems -- is sure to strike a responsive chord., "An enjoyable, highly readable, and very detailed account... An excellent text for students and researchers to better understand the often unique and always complex set of issues and actors that initiated, implemented, or thwarted urban planning efforts in New York City."--Susan Turner Meiklejohn, Journal of Planning Education and Research, "This well informed book... examines the origins of the various forms of planning New York City... [A] very exciting technical account... thorough and interesting."--Peter Eley, Urban Design Quarterly, This well informed book... examines the origins of the various forms of planning New York City... [A] very exciting technical account... thorough and interesting., ""Deeply researched, clearly written and argued... required reading for scholars of early twentieth-century New York City."", Absolutely essential reading for anyone trying to appreciate the achievements of Progressive reform-and its inadvertent consequences... A richly insightful book that will be read by anyone concerned about New York, public life, and the present state of American liberalism., Building Gotham documents with an insightful and unbiased eye the roles played by businesses and government in erecting the modern city's buildings, tunnels, sewers, transportation system, and the like., Absolutely essential reading for anyone trying to appreciate the achievements of Progressive reform -- and its inadvertent consequences... A richly insightful book that will be read by anyone concerned about New York, public life, and the present state of American liberalism., "Revell, a professor of public administration, pays particular attention to the army of experts--from engineers and architects to lawyers and financiers--who solved the enormous problems that initially had the 'ambitious experiment in collective living' teetering on the brink of disaster... the message distilled by Revell from his study of bygone New York--that 'outdated notions of individualism and local autonomy' can be detrimental to solving shared problems--is sure to strike a responsive chord."-- Civil Engineering, Revell, a professor of public administration, pays particular attention to the army of experts--from engineers and architects to lawyers and financiers--who solved the enormous problems that initially had the 'ambitious experiment in collective living' teetering on the brink of disaster... the message distilled by Revell from his study of bygone New York--that 'outdated notions of individualism and local autonomy' can be detrimental to solving shared problems--is sure to strike a responsive chord., Revell, a professor of public administration, pays particular attention to the army of experts-from engineers and architects to lawyers and financiers-who solved the enormous problems that initially had the 'ambitious experiment in collective living' teetering on the brink of disaster... the message distilled by Revell from his study of bygone New York-that 'outdated notions of individualism and local autonomy' can be detrimental to solving shared problems-is sure to strike a responsive chord., Absolutely essential reading for anyone trying to appreciate the achievements of Progressive reform--and its inadvertent consequences... A richly insightful book that will be read by anyone concerned about New York, public life, and the present state of American liberalism., Deeply researched, clearly written and argued... required reading for scholars of early twentieth-century New York City., "Deeply researched, clearly written and argued... required reading for scholars of early twentieth-century New York City." -- Angela M. Blake, Urban History, "Absolutely essential reading for anyone trying to appreciate the achievements of Progressive reform -- and its inadvertent consequences... A richly insightful book that will be read by anyone concerned about New York, public life, and the present state of American liberalism."--Joel Schwartz, Journal of American History, Building Gotham documents with an insightful and unbiased eye the roles played by businesses and government in erecting the modern city's buildings, tunnels, sewers, transportation system, and the like., "Building Gotham documents with an insightful and unbiased eye the roles played by businesses and government in erecting the modern city's buildings, tunnels, sewers, transportation system, and the like." -- Harry Siegel, New York Sun
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal307.1/216/09747
Table Of ContentContents: Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Conceiving the New Metropolis: Expertise, Public Policy, and the Problem of Civis Culture in New York CityPART 1: Private Infrastructure and Public Policy 1 ""The Public Be Pleased"": Railroad Planning, Engineering Culture, and the Promise of Quasi-scientific Voluntarism 2 Beyond Voluntarism: The Interstate Commerce Commission, the Railroads, and Freight Planning for New York Harbor PART 2: Public Infrastructure, Local Autonomy, and Private Wealth3 Buccaneer Bureaucrats, Physical Interdependence, and Free Riders: Building the Underground City 4 Taxing, Spending, and Borrowing: Expanding Public Claims on Private Wealth PART 3: Urban Planning, Private Rights, and Public Power 5 City Planning versus the Law: Zoning the New Metropolis 6 ""They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with brushes of comets' hair"": Regional Planning and the Metropolitan DilemmaConclusion: ""An almost mystical unity"": Interdependence and the Public Interest in the Modern Metropolis Appendix Notes Index
SynopsisWinner of the Best Book in North American Urban History Prize from the Urban History AssociationWinner of the Abel Wolman Award from the American Public Works Association In 1898, the New York state legislature created Greater New York, a metropolis of three and a half million people, the second largest city in the world, and arguably the most diverse and complex urban environment in history. In this far-ranging study, Keith D. Revell shows how experts in engineering, law, architecture, public health, public finance, and planning learned to cope with the daunting challenges of collective living on this new scale. Engineers applied new technologies to build railroad tunnels under the Hudson River and construct aqueducts to quench the thirst of a city on the verge of water famine. Sanitarians attempted to clean up a harbor choked by millions of gallons of raw sewage. Economists experimented with new approaches to financing urban infrastructure. Architects and planners wrestled with the problems of skyscraper regulation and regional growth. These issues of city-building and institutional change involved more than the familiar push and pull of interest groups or battles between bosses, reformers, immigrants, and natives. Revell details the ways that technical values--distinctive civic culture of expertise--helped reshape ideas of community, generate new centers of public authority, and change the physical landscape of New York City. Building Gotham thus demonstrates how a group of ambitious professionals overcame the limits of traditional means of decision-making and developed the city-building practices that enabled New York to become America's first mega-city., In 1898, the New York state legislature created Greater New York, a metropolis of three and a half million people, the second largest city in the world, and arguably the most diverse and complex urban environment in history. In this far-ranging study, Keith D. Revell shows how experts in engineering, law, architecture, public health, public finance, and planning learned to cope with the daunting challenges of collective living on this new scale. Engineers applied new technologies to build railroad tunnels under the Hudson River and construct aqueducts to quench the thirst of a city on the verge of water famine. Sanitarians attempted to clean up a harbor choked by millions of gallons of raw sewage. Economists experimented with new approaches to financing urban infrastructure. Architects and planners wrestled with the problems of skyscraper regulation and regional growth. These issues of city-building and institutional change involved more than the familiar push and pull of interest groups or battles between bosses, reformers, immigrants, and natives. Revell details the ways that technical values--distinctive civic culture of expertise--helped reshape ideas of community, generate new centers of public authority, and change the physical landscape of New York City. Building Gotham thus demonstrates how a group of ambitious professionals overcame the limits of traditional means of decision-making and developed the city-building practices that enabled New York to become America's first mega-city., "An excellent text for students and researchers to better understand the often unique and always complex set of issues and actors that initiated, implemented, or thwarted urban planning efforts in New York City." -- Journal of Planning Education and Research, In 1898, the New York state legislature created Greater New York, a metropolis of three and a half million people, the second largest city in the world, and arguably the most diverse and complex urban environment in history. In this far-ranging study, Keith D. Revell shows how experts in engineering, law, architecture, public health, public finance, and planning learned to cope with the daunting challenges of collective living on this new scale. Engineers applied new technologies to build railroad tunnels under the Hudson River and construct aqueducts to quench the thirst of a city on the verge of water famine. Sanitarians attempted to clean up a harbor choked by millions of gallons of raw sewage. Economists experimented with new approaches to financing urban infrastructure. Architects and planners wrestled with the problems of skyscraper regulation and regional growth. These issues of city-building and institutional change involved more than the familiar push and pull of interest groups or battles between bosses, reformers, immigrants, and natives. Revell details the ways that technical values -- distinctive civic culture of expertise -- helped reshape ideas of community, generate new centers of public authority, and change the physical landscape of New York City.Building Gotham thus demonstrates how a group of ambitious professionals overcame the limits of traditional means of decision-making and developed the city-building practices that enabled New York to become America's first mega-city., In 1898, the New York state legislature created Greater New York, a metropolis of three and a half million people, the second largest city in the world, and arguably the most diverse and complex urban environment in history. In this far-ranging study, Keith D. Revell shows how experts in engineering, law, architecture, public health, public ......
LC Classification NumberHT168.N5R48 2005
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