CREATIVE DESTRUCTION OF MANHATTAN, 1900- 1940, THE
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- EAN: 9780226644691
- ISBN: 978-0-226-64469-1
- Editorial: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
- Año de la edición: 1999
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 21 X 24 cm.
- Páginas: 304
- Materias:
urbanismo
ciudades y países
países: arquitectura y arte
estados unidos: arquitectura y arte
nueva york: arquitectura y arte
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Page investigates these cultural counterweights through case studies of Manhattan's development, with depictions ranging from private real estate development along Fifth Avenue to Jacob Riis's slum clearance efforts on the Lower East Side, from the elimination of street trees to the efforts to save City Hall from demolition. In these examples some New Yorkers celebrate planning by destruction or marvel at the domestication of the natural environment, while others decry the devastation of their homes and lament the passing of the city's architectural heritage. A central question in each case is the role of the past in the shaping of collective memory--which buildings are preserved? which trees are cut down? which fragments are enshrined in museums? Contrary to the popular sense of New York as an ahistorical city, the past--as recalled by powerful citizens--was, in fact, at the heart of defining how the city would be built.
