Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
List of Illustrations
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Between Rationalism and Pluralism: Creating the Modern City / David Ward and Olivier Zunz
Part II. Planning for New York City
Chapter 2. Regulating the Landscape: Real Estate Values, City Planning, and the 1916 Zoning Ordinance / Keith D. Revell
Chapter 3. Density and Intervention: New York's Planning Traditions / Marc A. Weiss
Chapter 4. Joining New York City to the Greater Metropolis: The Port Authority as Visionary, Target of Opportunity, and Opportunist / Jameson W. Doig
Chapter 5. The Regional Plan and the Transformation of the Industrial Metropolis / Robert Fishman
Part III. Building the Vertical City
Chapter 6. Corporate Identity and the New York Office Building: 1895-1915 / Gail Fenske and Deryck Holdsworth
Chapter 7. Form Follows Finance: The Empire State Building / Carol Willis
Part IV. Going from Home to Work
Chapter 8. Subways, Transit Politics, and Metropolitan Spatial Expansion / Clifton Hood
Chapter 9. Sweatshop Migrations: The Garment Industry Between Home and Shop / Nancy L. Green
Part V. Fighting for Identity
Chapter 10. Little Italy's Decline: Immigrant Renters and Investorys in a Changing City / Donna Gabaccia
Chapter 11. On the Fringes of the City: Jewish Neighborhoods in Three Boroughs
Chapter 12. Cities of Light, Landscapes of Pleasure / David Nasaw
Chapter 13. "The Pushcart Evil" / Daniel Bluestone
Part VI. Completing the Landscape
Chapter 14. Fiorello H. LaGuardia and the Challenge of Democratic Planning / Thomas Kessner
Selected References
Index