Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Revell, Keith D., 1963-

Publication

Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press, 2003.

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Details

Description

x, 327 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Subjects

• New York (N.Y.) > History > 19th century
• City and town life > New York (State) > New York
• City planning > New York (State) > New York
• Urban policy > New York (State) > New York

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-319) and index.

Contents

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 new 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.

Call Number

IRGC 03-740

ISBN

0801870739 (hard : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002000599

OCLC

48871595

Author

Revell, Keith D., 1963-

Title

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

Imprint

Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-319) and index.

Research Call Number

IRGC 03-740