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In one generation, New York was transformed into one of the great cities of the modern world. The causes and results of this change are emphasized by Edward K. Spann in The New Metropolis. This book is a brilliant evocation of the years when a seaport town was lost and a great metropolis gained. It is the happy story of American ingenuity, achievement, and urban success, but it is also the story of urban wretchedness and failure. Above all, it is the drama of a major city and its confrontation with the problems and opportunities of a modernizing world.
Price: $75.00
Pages: 546
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
18 May 1983
ISBN: 9780231050852
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, HISTORY / United States / General
Few scholarly historians have attempted to present a thorough account of the evolution of all the diverse forms of life and endeavor in the city during a given period. Few have moved from the preparation of detailed sketches to the creation of a sweeping portrait encompassing all the contrasting colors and tones of a metropolis. In The New Metropolis Edward K. Spann has attempted this challenging task and has produced a rich and rewarding history. Politicians and merchants, rich and poor, do-gooders and thugs, all inhabit the pages of Spann's volume. It is an encyclopedic view, a work ambitious in conception and masterly in presentation.
1. Commercial New York
2. Strangers and Citizens
3. The Trouble with Government
4. Poverty
5. A Rich and Growing City
6. Manhattan Sruvival Machine
7. The Use of Urban Space
8. Escape to Suburbia
9. Wealth
10. Progressive City-Wicked City
11. The Age of Gold
12. The Trouble with Politics
13. Tammany's City
14. Tyranny, Tammany, and the State
15. Metropolis