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Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis," New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innovation and reform. The horrors of the tenement were perfected in New York at the same time that the very rich were building palaces along Fifth Avenue; public housing for the poor originated in New York, as did government subsidies for middle-class housing.A standard in the field since its publication in 1992, A History of Housing in New York City traces New York's housing development from 1850 to the present in text and profuse illustrations. Richard Plunz explores the housing of all classes, with comparative discussion of the development of types ranging from the single-family house to the high-rise apartment tower. His analysis is placed within the context of the broader political and cultural development of New York City. This revised edition extends the scope of the book into the city's recent history, adding three decades to the study, covering the recent housing bubble crisis, the rebound and gentrification of the five boroughs, and the ecological issues facing the next generation of New Yorkers. More than 300 illustrations are integrated throughout the text, depicting housing plans, neighborhood changes, and city architecture over the past 130 years. This new edition also features a foreword by the distinguished urban historian Kenneth T. Jackson. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I rated the book 5 stars because it is scholarly and comprehensive. It is a survey, though, that doesn't concentrate on any one aspect. A good clue to the book's nature is this, on page 4:
[Quote] By mid- [19th] century New York had achieved its position as the North American metropolis. During this time the dominant characteristics of the city's present-day culture of housing began to emerge; New York became a city not of "houses," but of "housing." A growing proportion of its inhabitants lived in collective accomodation that was unique in the nation. This condition crossed class lines from the tenements of the poor to the increasingly dense row housing of the upper middle class. [Unquote]
A good use of the book's housing project descriptions, for me, will be as a framework on which to base walking tours of the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn. They are handled chronologically and by type by the author, but it won't be hard, using Google Earth or Maps, to organize them by location and walk from one to another. Touring the outer boroughs suffers from the limitation that you are walking past housing of different types - and not much else - most of the time. There is significance in this housing, you sense, because its scale and extent are so far beyond the experience of anyone, I would guess, but New York residents. This book fulfils that task of describing what you are seeing and its place in the scheme of things, housing-wise.
There's a twofold value in this book for me: (1) It explains New York at the level of housing, which is a useful level if you want to understand New York. And (2) it vastly increases the value and productivity of a day walking the Bronx, Queens, or Brooklyn, and provides an incentive to 'get out there' to the boroughs instead of always being snagged by the lures of Manhattan on my daytrips to New York. ( )