Greater Gotham - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Greater Gotham write by Mike Wallace. This book was released on 2017. Greater Gotham available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Volume two of the world famous trilogy on the history of New York
Greater than Ever
Greater than Ever - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Greater than Ever write by Daniel Doctoroff. This book was released on 2017-09-12. Greater than Ever available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The former deputy mayor of New York City tells the story of the city's comeback after 9/11, offering lessons in resiliency under the most trying of circumstances, and a model for the rejuvenation of any city. Deputy Mayor Daniel L. Doctoroff led New York's dramatic and unexpected economic resurgence after the September 11 terrorist attacks. With Mayor Michael Bloomberg, he developed a remarkably ambitious five-borough economic development plan to not only recover from the attacks but to completely transform New York's economy: New neighborhoods were created. Hundreds of thousands of jobs were generated. The largest municipal affordable housing plan in American history was completed. Ground Zero was rebuilt. And New York adopted a pathbreaking sustainability plan. None of this was straightforward. New York has some of the most entrenched financial and political interests anywhere, and it has a population that is quick to let its public officials know exactly what is on its mind. Doctoroff's plans for a New York Olympic Games and a stadium on the West Side crashed and burned, but phoenix-like he engineered the transformation of the city anyway. Greater than Ever is a bracing adventure--when can-do attitude dove headlong into New York's unique realpolitik of "fuggedaboutit" -- during which the city was changed for the better.
Gotham Unbound
Gotham Unbound - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gotham Unbound write by Ted Steinberg. This book was released on 2014-06-03. Gotham Unbound available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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).
First Manhattans
First Manhattans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook First Manhattans write by Robert Steven Grumet. This book was released on 2011. First Manhattans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Profiles Manhattan Island's first residents, the Munsee Indians, from their first interactions with European settlers in 1524 to the group's relocation to reservations in the Midwest and Canada during the eighteenth century.
Greater New York 2010
Greater New York 2010 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Greater New York 2010 write by Klaus Biesenbach. This book was released on 2010. Greater New York 2010 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Text by Klaus Biesenbach, Cornelia H. Butler, Neville Wakefield.
