Building New York: The Rise and Rise of the Greatest City on Earth

Marshall, Bruce

ISBN 10: 0789313626 / ISBN 13: 9780789313621

Published by Universe Publishing, 2005

About this Item

Very Good ; Very Good Jacket. 2005 Universe Publishing - Rizzoli International. First Edition, stated. First printing. Full number line on verso. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Oversized hardcover, 9 x 13.6 inches, has black and grey pictorial paper-covered boards with white spine and cover lettering. Illustrated endpapers. Color and black and white photographs. High-quality glossy paper. 304 pages. Printed in Singapore. Binding tight. Book is in excellent condition with only very light surface wear. Pages clean and unmarked. Glossy illustrated dust jacket has very light edge and surface wear. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building New York: The Rise and Rise of the Greatest City on Earth
• Publisher: Universe Publishing
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0789313626
• ISBN 13: 9780789313621
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography
  • Architecture
  • Cities and Towns

About this title

Synopsis

The evolution of New York's built environment is chronicled in this breathtaking history organized chronologically by site-from architectural masterpieces to engineering marvels. Witness New York as it was being built in the years following the Civil War. It was during this era when the city spread uptown, landscaped Central Park, engineered the bridges and subways, and scaled ever higher in the form of innovative skyscrapers.The New York story unfolds in these pages with an immediacy only photography can capture. It allows us to relive the moment when the theaters moved uptown followed by the city's "newspaper of record," and muddy, horse-trodden Longacre Square sprouted its iconic neon signs and was reborn as Times Square. Trace the growth by accretion of the Metropolitan Museum of Art as it nibbled away at the park or the transformation of Fifth Avenue into "millionaires row." Along the way, the majestic history of the city unfolds along with the story of the visionaries whose stamp it bears today. New York's coming of age coincided with the rise of photography, and this incredible trove of photographs culled from the archives of Time Life and the New-York Historical Society are the very images that created the larger-than-life reputation of New York that continues to dazzle the world today.

About the Author

Bruce Marshall was the founding editor of The Reader's Digest General Books program, whose first book, The Reader's Digest Great World Atlas, sold more than 20 million copies in editions around the world. He later founded Marshall Editions and created a wide range of popular thematic atlases. He is also the author of The Real World.