City on a grid : how New York became New York / Gerard Koeppel.

"City on a Grid tells--for the first time--the fascinating story of the creation and long life of New York City's distinctive street grid: its many streets crossed at right angles by a few parallel avenues laid upon a rural Manhattan two centuries ago. The grid made New York what it is today, and de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Koeppel, Gerard T., 1957-
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2015]
Subjects:
City planning > New York (State) > New York > History.
Streets > New York (State) > New York > History.
Grids (Crisscross patterns) > New York (State) > New York > History.
City and town life > New York (State) > New York > History.
Social change > New York (State) > New York > History.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > History.
New York (N.Y.) > History.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
ARCHITECTURE > Urban & Land Use Planning.
City and town life.
City planning.
Grids (Crisscross patterns)
Social change.
Streets.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York > Manhattan.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxiv, 296 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustratons ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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