false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173484033m/296510.jpg 296510 1 This is the fourth volume in architect and historian Robert A. M. Stern's monumental series of documentary studies of New York City architecture and urbanism. The three previous books in the series, <i>New York 1900</i>, <i>New York 1930</i>, and <i>New York 1960</i>, have comprehensively covered the architects and urban planners who defined New York over the course of the twentieth century.<br><br> In this volume, Stern turns back to 1880 -- the end of the Civil War, the beginning of European modernism -- to trace the earlier history of the city. This dynamic era saw the technological advances and acts of civic and private will that formed the identity of New York City as we know it today. The installation of water, telephone, and electricity infrastructures as well as the advent of electric lighting, the elevator, and mass transit allowed the city to grow both out and up. The office building and apartment house types were envisioned and defined, changing the ways that New Yorkers worked and lived. Such massive public projects as the Brooklyn Bridge and Central Park became realities, along with such private efforts as Grand Central Station.<br><br> Like the other three volumes, <i>New York 1880</i> is an in-depth presentation of the buildings and plans that transformed New York from a harbor town into a world-class metropolis. A broad range of primary sources -- critics and writers, architects, planners, city officials -- brings the time period to life and allows the city to tell its own complex story. The book is generously illustrated with over 1,200 archival photographs, which show the city as it was, and as some parts of it still are. 287707 1 4 1999 New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age (New York) total:5|5:4|4:1| 5 24 13 0 0 0 false false Sat Oct 03 06:04:32 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 06:04:32 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 15 09:18:25 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 09:18:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed May 13 13:44:24 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 13:44:24 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 22 16:25:26 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 16:26:01 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Dec 13 21:44:52 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 21:44:52 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Mon Sep 15 14:04:29 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 14:04:29 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Sep 13 18:50:27 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 18:50:27 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Sep 13 11:16:08 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 11:16:08 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jul 09 12:18:46 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 12:18:46 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Apr 07 22:38:05 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 22:38:08 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Jan 08 16:33:30 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 16:33:30 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Wed Jul 25 09:50:52 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 09:50:52 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Thu Apr 12 18:46:56 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 12 18:46:56 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=296510