"The AIA Guide to New York City has been the ultimate single-volume guide to the City's architectural treasures."--Back cover
Norval White Livres
Norval Crawford White fut un architecte, historien de l'architecture et professeur américain. Il est largement considéré comme l'une des grandes figures de l'architecture new-yorkaise, surtout connu pour ses écrits, en particulier son guide influent de l'architecture de la ville. Le travail de White s'est étendu à la conception de bâtiments dans tout les États-Unis, contribuant à une compréhension plus approfondie de son patrimoine architectural.
Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles
- 528pages
- 19 heures de lecture
"Today, Broadway almost feels inevitable, but over the past four hundred years there have been thousands who have tried to draw and erase its path. Following their footsteps, we learn why one side of the street was once considered more fashionable than the other; witness the construction of Trinity Church, the Flatiron Building, and the Ansonia Hotel; the burning of P. T. Barnum's American Museum; and discover that Columbia University was built on the site of an insane asylum. Along the way we meet Alexander Hamilton, Emma Goldman, Edgar Allan Poe, John James Audubon, "Bill the Butcher" Poole, and the assorted real-estate speculators, impresarios, and politicians who helped turn Broadway into New York's commercial and cultural spine. [This book] traces the physical and social transformation of an avenue that has been both the "Path of Progress" and a "street of broken dreams," home to both parades and riots, startling wealth and appalling destitution. Glamorous, complex, and sometimes troubling, the evolution of an oft-flooded dead end to a canyon of steel and glass is the story of American progress."--More from dust jacket