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A History of Housing in New York City
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| #354053 in Books | 1990-04-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .76 x8.56 x9.23l,2.37 | File type: PDF | 422 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A wonderful mapping of the grid--with its social stories tied to ...|By Joan Nestle|A wonderful mapping of the grid--with its social stories tied to the facades and air shafts--for me, the discovery of unknown housing heroes and still the same old holders of power--the real estate interests. For my work on the history of one upper west side building it is my beginning point wit||Housing, historically one of most perplexing problems, turns out to be a fascinating perspective from which to assess our incomparable city. Professor Plunz provides an erudite, revealing, and relentlessly engaging portrait of a great urban place and its peopl
The French architect Le Corbusier once described New York as "a magnificent catastrophe." Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis"' New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innovation and reform. The horrors of the tenement were perfected in New York at the same time that the very rich were building palaces along Fifth Avenue; yet public housing for the poor also...
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