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Author : Christopher Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book New York Streetscapes written by Christopher Gray and published by . This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects vignettes depicting unique sites and buildings of New York, with each location accompanied by a period photograph.
Author : Matthew Litwack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781584235545
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Beneath the Streets written by Matthew Litwack and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only a handful of transit workers, daring explorers and graffiti writers have experienced the full scope of the New York subway system. Beneath The Streets reveals this world for the first time with fantastic photographs captured from throughout the tunnels and byways of the subway. Although it provides service to over 5 million riders every day, the subway is for most a sealed system. Very few of its patrons are aware of the extent of this vast underground infrastructure. The authors of this important historical work first discovered this hidden world in the process of photographing graffiti found below ground in the subway system. Now their riveting documentary work opens up this subterranean maze, including 600 miles of active track as well as abandoned sections and disused stations, for all to experience.
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)
Download or read book Designing New York written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reuben Rose-Redwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317020707
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes written by Reuben Rose-Redwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Streetscapes are part of the taken-for-granted spaces of everyday urban life, yet they are also contested arenas in which struggles over identity, memory, and place shape the social production of urban space. This book examines the role that street naming has played in the political life of urban streetscapes in both historical and contemporary cities. The renaming of streets and remaking of urban commemorative landscapes have long been key strategies that different political regimes have employed to legitimize spatial assertions of sovereign authority, ideological hegemony, and symbolic power. Over the past few decades, a rich body of critical scholarship has explored the politics of urban toponymy, and the present collection brings together the works of geographers, anthropologists, historians, linguists, planners, and political scientists to examine the power of street naming as an urban place-making practice. Covering a wide range of case studies from cities in Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia, the contributions to this volume illustrate how the naming of streets has been instrumental to the reshaping of urban spatial imaginaries and the cultural politics of place.
Author : New York (N.Y.). Department of Transportation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615290966
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Street Design Manual written by New York (N.Y.). Department of Transportation and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York City Street Design Manual provides policies and design guidelines to city agencies, design professionals, private developers, and community groups for the improvement of streets and sidewalks throughout the five boroughs. It is intended to serve as a comprehensive resource for promoting higher quality street designs and more efficient project implementation.
Author : Anthony W. Robins
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438463987
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book New York Art Deco written by Anthony W. Robins and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first guidebook devoted exclusively to New York City’s Art Deco treasures. Winner of a 2017–2018 New York City Book Award presented by the New York Society Library Of all the world’s great cities, perhaps none is so defined by its Art Deco architecture as New York. Lively and informative, New York Art Deco leads readers step-by-step past the monuments of the 1920s and ’30s that recast New York as the world’s modern metropolis. Anthony W. Robins, New York’s best-known Art Deco guide, includes an introductory essay describing the Art Deco phenomenon, followed by eleven walking tour itineraries in Manhattan—each accompanied by a map designed by legendary New York cartographer John Tauranac—and a survey of Deco sites across the four other boroughs. Also included is a photo gallery of sixteen color plates by nationally acclaimed Art Deco photographer Randy Juster. In New York Art Deco, Robins has distilled thirty years’ worth of experience into a guidebook for all to enjoy at their own pace. A native New Yorker and twenty-year veteran of the New York City Landmarks Commission, Anthony W. Robins is the author of books on Grand Central Terminal, the World Trade Center, and the art and architecture of the New York subway system. A popular leader of walking tours all over New York City, he is best known for Art Deco, and organized the city’s first regularly scheduled series of Art Deco tours, sponsored by the Art Deco Society of New York. He is the recipient of the 2017 Guiding Spirit Award from the Guides Association of New York City.
Author : Jessie Kanelos Weiner
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847866602
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)
Download or read book New York in Stride written by Jessie Kanelos Weiner and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A locals' treasure map to the secret spots favored by true New Yorkers. The "must-visit, must-see" travel list given to you by the New Yorker friend you wish you had. Vibrantly illustrated throughout, this practical guide transports readers to discover an insider's view of the Big Apple. The vivid watercolors illustrate destinations of the architectural marvels, cultural hubs, food and drink spots, and music venues that make New York so exciting. Cultural musings, accessible histories, anecdotes, and informative details accompany the illustrations throughout, making this volume as practical as it is beautiful. The book features eleven curated neighborhood destination walks--guiding the reader through the energetic New York streets, passing restaurants and coffee shops, historical sights, museums and galleries, parks, and the kind of authentic and timeless sites that one hopes to find when imagining the city. Interwoven throughout are insider guides on how to eat like a New Yorker; explore the city's most beautiful parks and gardens; navigate transit via ferry, subway, and bike; visit some of NYC's most iconic TV and film locations.
Author : Julia Wertz
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 0316501220
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Tenements, Towers & Trash written by Julia Wertz and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of 2017! Here is New York, as you've never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, and the guts of New York City, based on Julia Wertz's popular illustrated columns in The New Yorker and Harper's. In Tenements, Towers & Trash, Julia Wertz takes us behind the New York that you think you know. Not the tourist's New York-the Statue of Liberty makes a brief appearance and the Empire State Building not at all-but the guts, the underbelly, of this city that never sleeps. With drawings and comics in her signature style, Wertz regales us with streetscapes "Then and Now" and little-known tales, such as the lost history of Kim's Video, the complicated and unresolved business of Ray's Pizza, the vintage trash and horse bones that litter the shore of Brooklyn's Bottle Beach, the ludicrous pinball prohibition, Staten Island's secret abandoned boatyard, and the hair-raising legend of the infamous abortionist of Fifth Avenue, Madame Restell. From bars, bakeries, and bookstores to food carts, street cleaners, and apartments both cramped and grand, Tenements, Towers & Trash is a wild ride in a time machine taxi from the present day city to bygone days of yore.
Author : Bianca Maria Rinaldi
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3035617201
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Urban Landscapes in High-Density Cities written by Bianca Maria Rinaldi and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The positive effects of urban green spaces are well-known, ranging from the promotion of health, support of biodiversity to climate regulation. However, the practical implementation of urban landscapes is less discussed. How can we make these spaces functional, economically feasible and inclusive, especially as cities become more diverse? The publication explores strategies to reconcile the various demands, such as food production, resilience and nature conservation. Indeed, urban landscapes have to be restorative, ecological and aesthetically pleasing at the same time. This is a particular challenge in high-density cities like Singapore, Seoul or New York where space is a scarce commodity. The continuing growth of the worldwide urban population imbues the topic with a special urgency.
Author : David Stravitz
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810950115
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (51 download)
Download or read book New York, Empire City written by David Stravitz and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City between the wars comes gloriously to life in this fascinating collection of 100 historical photographs of its notable streetscapes and landmarks. These rare photographs are accompanied by informative captions and an insightful essay by architectural historian Christopher Gray.
Author : Kris Scheerlinck &
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781367634152
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Common Streetscapes New York Streetscape Territories Notebook written by Kris Scheerlinck & and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During summer and fall 2014, an international collaboration research and design project was set up in New York, called Common Streetscapes, The Low Countries and New York, consisting out of a series of workshops, seminars, round table discussions and site visits with students, professionals and academics of Flanders, The Netherlands and New York. During these activites, different expertises and approaches related to the reading and design of collective spaces were put together and tested by focusing on Coney Island, Brooklyn New York.During summer 2014, following previous research projects and workshops in Williamsburg and Gowanus in New York, an international 10day hands-on transdisciplinary workshop was organised about Coney Island, working with local communities of Kaiser Park, a public park situated at the interior side of Coney Island. Local students and teachers of Pratt Institute New York and Partnerships for Parks, a joint program of Parks & Recreation New York, together with some local stakeholders joined the project besides the delegations of KU Leuven (Faculty of Architecture, campus Sint-Lucas Ghent and Brussels) and TU Delft. Around twenty participants from different European countries discussed and proposed ideas of how to deal with its future streetscapes and waterscapes in this part of the metropolis of New York. The workshop was supported by the Flemish and Dutch Government representatives in New York.Later, in fall 2014, a research and design seminar was organised to follow up the initial outcomes of the workshop and discuss, this time with panels of invited experts from U.S., the main topics that define the reality and future of Coney Island. At the same time, this seminar was the starting point for a master dissertation design studio, conducted at KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture, International Master of Architecture and a design studio at TU Delft that was finalised at the end of spring 2015.
Author : Charles Lockwood
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847865894
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Bricks & Brownstone written by Charles Lockwood and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The much-awaited reissue and reexpression of the classic New York row-house book Bricks and Brownstone, with all-new and updated text, new color photography, and luxury slipcase. The classic book Bricks & Brownstone, the first and still the only volume to examine in depth the changing form and varied architectural styles of the much-loved New York City row house, or brownstone, was first published in 1972. That edition helped pave the way for a brownstone revival that has transformed New York's historic neighborhoods over the past half-century. Rizzoli published a revised and expanded edition of the book in 2003, to much fanfare. This edition revisits the classic comprehensively, with an updated text and additional chapters, and an abundance of specially commissioned color photography. It offers to an eager audience the long-awaited re-issue of the landmark volume in a brilliant new form. Boasting more than 250 color and black-and-white images, this definitive volume traces New York's row houses from colonial days through World War I, examining in detail the Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Second Empire architectural styles of the early and mid-nineteenth century, as well as the Neo-Grec, Queen Anne, Romanesque, Renaissance Revival, and Colonial Revival styles of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The new Bricks & Brownstone remains the gold standard reference on brownstone architecture and interiors, and one of the few truly classic histories of New York's urbanism and real estate development.
Author : Geoffrey Lynch
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616892676
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (168 download)
Download or read book Manhattan Classic written by Geoffrey Lynch and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dakota. The Apthorp. The San Remo. The names of these legendary New York apartment buildings evoke images of marble-lined lobbies, uniformed doormen, and sunlit penthouses with sweeping Central Park views. Built from the 1880s through 1930s, classic prewar apartments were designed to lure townhouse dwellers reluctant to share a roof with other families. Billed as private mansions in the sky, they promised a charmed Manhattan lifestyle of elegance and luxury. Manhattan Classic takes readers on a lavishly illustrated guided tour of eighty-five of the most coveted buildings in New York. Author Geoffrey Lynch provides capsule histories—equal parts architectural and social history— of the most celebrated examples, with anecdotes about well-known residents and essential information about notable features. This gorgeous coffee table book is an indispensible resource for apartment hunters, real estate and design professionals, and anyone fascinated by the grace and glamour of prewar style.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Fulton Street Transit Center, New York, New York, Section 4(f) Evaluation written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jason Hawkes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781858945293
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (452 download)
Download or read book New York at Night written by Jason Hawkes and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York skyline is arguably one of the most distinctive on Earth. At night, however, the city’s numerous landmarks are transformed from the familiar into the new. Following the success of Merrell’s London at Night, award-winning aerial photographer Jason Hawkes offers a dramatic, night-time perspective on one of the world’s most iconic locations. From the vantage point of a helicopter, Hawkes captures the magical, almost abstract quality of such familiar sights as the Statue of Liberty, Times Square and the Empire State Building as seen after dark, as well as revealing some of New York’s less well-known vistas. Featuring an informative introduction and extended captions by the New York Times journalist Christopher Gray, New York at Night is a unique and often breathtaking record of the city that truly never sleeps.
Author : Andrew Dolkart
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470289635
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Guide to New York City Landmarks written by Andrew Dolkart and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-12-03 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official guide to New York's must-see buildings profiles a host of new landmarks and includes 80 two-color, easy-to-read maps, and more than 200 photographs. This new edition will make every visitor feel like a native--and turn every native into a wide-eyed tourist. Includes a Foreword by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
Author : Christopher Gray
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Changing New York written by Christopher Gray and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 100 finest pieces from Gray s "Streetscape" column for The New York Times. 110 illus. Introduction. "
