The Landscape of Modernity - New York City, 1900-40 (Hardcover)

New YorkCity stands as the first expression of the modern city, a mosaic of disparate neighborhoods born in 1898 with the amalgamation of the five boroughs and shaped by the passions of developers and regulators, architects and engineers, politicians and reformers, immigrant entrepreneurs and corporate builders. Through their labor, their ideals, and their often fierce battles, the physical and social dimensions the landscape of the modern city were forged. The original essays inThe Landscape of Modernitytell the compelling story of the growth of New YorkCity from 1900 to 1940, from the beginnings of its skyscraper skyline to the expanding reaches of suburbanization."