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City on a Grid: How New York Became New York
Gerard Koeppel
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| #499933 in Books | 2015-11-10 | 2015-11-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.75 x1.15 x6.75l,.0 | File type: PDF | 336 pages||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Informative but also enjoyable|By P. Johnson|I am engrossed in this book. I thought I was fairly knowledgeable about NYC, but this is a whole different angle, if you will. Gerald Koeppel really alters your view of the city and provides fascinating stories about how the city has grown from "villages" to the grid. His voice is really entertaining, too--it's like being with a grea||Library Journal, 9/18/15|Readers curious about the growth of infrastructure in large city centers will definitely be interested in Koeppel's take.”||Internet of Books, 11/6/15|How can anybody have anything much to say, much les
You either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. Created in 1811 by a three-man commission featuring headstrong Founding Father Gouverneur Morris, the plan called for a dozen parallel avenues crossing at right angles with many dozens of parallel streets in an unbroken grid. Hills and valleys, streams and ponds, forests and swamps were invisible to the grid; so too were country villages, roads, farms, and estates and generat...
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