Columbia: Histoire de la vie urbaine Séries

Originally published as: A history of housing in New York City: dwelling type and social change in the American metropolis. New York: Columbia University Press, A1990. číst celé

Edward T. O'Donnell's exploration of Henry George's life and times merges labor, ethnic, intellectual, and political history to illuminate the early labor movement in New York during the Gilded Age. George's accessible, forward-thinking ideas on democracy, equality, and freedom have tremendous... číst celé

Focusing on the life of Milton A. Galamison, a key yet underrecognized figure in New York's civil rights movement, the narrative explores his efforts to uplift the city's underprivileged children through integration. It delves into the intricate dynamics of urban politics, race relations, and the challenges of school reform, revealing the factors that led to the movement's decline just as change was on the horizon. This comprehensive account sheds light on a pivotal yet overlooked chapter in American history.

Imagine a world without automobiles, traffic lights, and interstate highways. Or the words commuter and parking . For a nation that prides itself on the freedom of movement and the long weekend, this seems nearly impossible.In Down the Asphalt Path , Clay McShane examines the uniquely American relation between automobility and urbanization. Writing at the cutting edge of urban and technological history, McShane focuses on how new transportation systems―most important, the private automobile―and new concepts of the city redefined each other in modern America. We swiftly motor across the country from Boston to New York to Milwaukee to Los Angeles and the suburbs in between as McShane chronicles the urban embrace of the automobile.McShane begins with mid-nineteenth century municipal bans on horseless carriages, a response to public fears of accidents and pollution. After cities redesigned roads to encourage new forms of trasnport, especially trolley cars, light carriages, and bicycles, the bans disappeared in the 1890s. With the advent of the automobile, metropolitan elites quickly and permanently established cars as status symbols. Down the Asphalt Path also explains the escapist appeal of the motor car to many Americans constrained by traditional social values.This book includes more than thirty photographs detailing the transformation of urban transportation. They bring to life chapters on modes of travel before the trolley; the push for parks, parkways, and suburbanization; the car in popular culture; and the battle for traffic safety and regulation. McShane's analysis of gender relations in the rise of automobility―in particular, definitions of gender in terms of mechanical skill and of driving as male power―is both timely and innovative.Wonderfully readable, this book will be a treasure for readers of urban history, popular culture, and technology―as well as car buffs.