[Library ebook] The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011
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| #322693 in Books | imusti | 2012-01-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.20 x.70 x12.00l,2.83 | File Name: 0231159900 | 224 pages | Columbia University Press
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating for Those Interested in the History of New York|By dave strasburg|This book is fascinating for anybody interested in the history of New York, or in city planning in general. It tells the story of New York's revolutionary grid system, interesting especially because the Manhattan grid utilizes every spot on the island of Manhattan above the already built-up city. It||You don't have to be a geometry major to love The Greatest Grid... (Sam Roberts New York Times)|About the Author|Hilary Ballon is deputy vice chancellor of New York University Abu Dhabi, part of the leadership team
Laying out Manhattan's street grid and providing a rationale for the growth of New York was the city's first great civic enterprise, not to mention a brazenly ambitious project and major milestone in the history of city planning. The grid created the physical conditions for business and society to flourish and embodied the drive and discipline for which the city would come to be known. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York celebr...
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