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Mannahatta

Author : Eric W. Sanderson
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1613125739
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Mannahatta written by Eric W. Sanderson and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did New York look like four centuries ago? An extraordinary reconstruction of a wild island from the forests of Times Square to the wetlands downtown. Named a Best Book of the Year by Library Journal, New York Magazine, and San Francisco Chronicle On September 12, 1609, Henry Hudson first set foot on the land that would become Manhattan. Today, it’s difficult to imagine what he saw, but for more than a decade, landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson has been working to do just that. Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City is the astounding result of those efforts, reconstructing in words and images the wild island that millions now call home. By geographically matching an eighteenth-century map with one of the modern city, examining volumes of historic documents, and collecting and analyzing scientific data, Sanderson re-creates topography, flora, and fauna from a time when actual wolves prowled far beyond Wall Street and the degree of biological diversity rivaled that of our most famous national parks. His lively text guides you through this abundant landscape—while breathtaking illustrations transport you back in time. Mannahatta is a groundbreaking work that provides not only a window into the past, but also inspiration for the future. “[A] wise and beautiful book, sure to enthrall anyone interested in NYC history.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A cartographical detective tale . . . The fact-intense charts, maps and tables offered in abundance here are fascinating.” —The New York Times “[An] exuberantly written and beautifully illustrated exploration of pre-European Gotham.” —San Francisco Chronicle “You don’t have to be a New Yorker to be enthralled.” —Library Journal

City on a Grid

Author : Gerard Koeppel
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306822857
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book City on a Grid written by Gerard Koeppel and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015New York City Book Award The never-before-told story of the grid that ate Manhattan You either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. This is its story. Praise for City on a Grid "The best account to date of the process by which an odd amalgamation of democracy and capitalism got written into New York's physical DNA."--New York Times Book Review "Intriguing...breezy and highly readable."--Wall Street Journal "City on a Grid tells the too little-known tale of how and why Manhattan came to be the waffle-board city we know."--The New Yorker "[An] expert investigation into what made the city special."--Publishers Weekly "A fun, fascinating, and accessible read for those curious enough to delve into the origins of an amazing city."--New York Journal of Books "Koeppel is the very best sort of writer for this sort of history."--Roanoke Times

D, Society. E, Geography. 1912

Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book D, Society. E, Geography. 1912 written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History and topography of the city of York; and the North riding of Yorkshire

Author : Whellan T. and co
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book History and topography of the city of York; and the North riding of Yorkshire written by Whellan T. and co and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Best Books: D, Society. E, Geography. 1912

Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Best Books: D, Society. E, Geography. 1912 written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bibliography Of New York Colonial History (1901)

Author : Charles Allcott Flagg
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 1437481280
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (374 download)

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Book Synopsis Bibliography Of New York Colonial History (1901) by : Charles Allcott Flagg

Download or read book Bibliography Of New York Colonial History (1901) written by Charles Allcott Flagg and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gotham Unbound

Author : Ted Steinberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476741301
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Gotham Unbound written by Ted Steinberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award for US History A “fascinating, encyclopedic history…of greater New York City through an ecological lens” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—the sweeping story of one of the most man-made spots on earth. Gotham Unbound recounts the four-century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation’s population. Ted Steinberg brings a vanished New York back to vivid, rich life. You will see the metropolitan area anew, not just as a dense urban goliath but as an estuary once home to miles of oyster reefs, wolves, whales, and blueberry bogs. That world gave way to an onslaught managed by thousands, from Governor John Montgomerie, who turned water into land, and John Randel, who imposed a grid on Manhattan, to Robert Moses, Charles Urstadt, Donald Trump, and Michael Bloomberg. “Weighty and wonderful…Resting on a sturdy foundation of research and imagination, Steinberg’s volume begins with Henry Hudson’s arrival aboard the Half Moon in 1609 and ends with another transformative event—Hurricane Sandy in 2012” (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland). This book is a powerful account of the relentless development that New Yorkers wrought as they plunged headfirst into the floodplain and transformed untold amounts of salt marsh and shellfish beds into a land jam-packed with people, asphalt, and steel, and the reeds and gulls that thrive among them. With metropolitan areas across the globe on a collision course with rising seas, Gotham Unbound helps explain how one of the most important cities in the world has ended up in such a perilous situation. “Steinberg challenges the conventional arguments that geography is destiny….And he makes the strong case that for all the ecological advantages of urban living, hyperdensity by itself is not necessarily a sound environmental strategy” (The New York Times).

The Treasury of Geography, Physical, Historical, Descriptive, and Political

Author : William Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Treasury of Geography, Physical, Historical, Descriptive, and Political written by William Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History and Topography of the United States of North America

Author : John Howard Hinton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The History and Topography of the United States of North America written by John Howard Hinton and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History and Topography of the United States of North America, Brought Down from the Earliest Period ...

Author : John Howard Hinton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History and Topography of the United States of North America, Brought Down from the Earliest Period ... written by John Howard Hinton and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Best Books: D, Society. E, Geography. 1912

Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Best Books: D, Society. E, Geography. 1912 written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A List of Maps of America in the Library of Congress

Author : Library of Congress. Division of Maps and Charts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A List of Maps of America in the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress. Division of Maps and Charts and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years ...

Author : British Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1178 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years ... written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Before Central Park

Author : Sara Cedar Miller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231543905
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Before Central Park written by Sara Cedar Miller and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner - 2023 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize, UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes With more than eight hundred sprawling green acres in the middle of one of the world’s densest cities, Central Park is an urban masterpiece. Designed in the middle of the nineteenth century by the landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it is a model for city parks worldwide. But before it became Central Park, the land was the site of farms, businesses, churches, wars, and burial grounds—and home to many different kinds of New Yorkers. This book is the authoritative account of the place that would become Central Park. From the first Dutch family to settle on the land through the political crusade to create America’s first major urban park, Sara Cedar Miller chronicles two and a half centuries of history. She tells the stories of Indigenous hunters, enslaved people and enslavers, American patriots and British loyalists, the Black landowners of Seneca Village, Irish pig farmers, tavern owners, Catholic sisters, Jewish protesters, and more. Miller unveils a British fortification and camp during the Revolutionary War, a suburban retreat from the yellow fever epidemics at the turn of the nineteenth century, and the properties that a group of free Black Americans used to secure their right to vote. Tales of political chicanery, real estate speculation, cons, and scams stand alongside democratic idealism, the striving of immigrants, and powerfully human lives. Before Central Park shows how much of the history of early America is still etched upon the landscapes of Central Park today.

Alphabetical and analytical catalogue. With a historical notice of the institution

Author : New York city, New York soc. libr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Alphabetical and analytical catalogue. With a historical notice of the institution written by New York city, New York soc. libr and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

City on a Grid

Author : Gerard Koeppel
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306822849
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book City on a Grid written by Gerard Koeppel and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The never-before-told story of the grid that ate Manhattan

The Making of Urban America

Author : John William Reps
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691238243
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Urban America written by John William Reps and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey of urban growth in America has become a standard work in the field. From the early colonial period to the First World War, John Reps explores to what extent city planning has been rooted in the nation's tradition, showing the extent of European influence on early communities. Illustrated by over three hundred reproductions of maps, plans, and panoramic views, this book presents hundreds of American cities and the unique factors affecting their development.