Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 18981938,Used

Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 18981938,Used

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Winner of the Best Book in North American Urban History Prize from the Urban History AssociationWinner of the Abel Wolman Award from the American Public Works AssociationIn 1898, the New York state legislature created Greater New York, a metropolis of three and a half million people, the second largest city in the world, and arguably the most diverse and complex urban environment in history. In this farranging study, Keith D. Revell shows how experts in engineering, law, architecture, public health, public finance, and planning learned to cope with the daunting challenges of collective living on this new scale. Engineers applied new technologies to build railroad tunnels under the Hudson River and construct aqueducts to quench the thirst of a city on the verge of water famine. Sanitarians attempted to clean up a harbor choked by millions of gallons of raw sewage. Economists experimented with new approaches to financing urban infrastructure. Architects and planners wrestled with the problems of skyscraper regulation and regional growth. These issues of citybuilding and institutional change involved more than the familiar push and pull of interest groups or battles between bosses, reformers, immigrants, and natives. Revell details the ways that technical valuesdistinctive civic culture of expertisehelped reshape ideas of community, generate new centers of public authority, and change the physical landscape of New York City.Building Gotham thus demonstrates how a group of ambitious professionals overcame the limits of traditional means of decisionmaking and developed the citybuilding practices that enabled New York to become America's first megacity.

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