Building Gotham

Building Gotham
Author: Keith D. Revell
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780801882067

These issues of city-building and institutional change involved more than the familiar push and pull of interest groups or battles between bosses, reformers, immigrants, and natives. Revell explores the ways in which technical values - a distinctive civic culture of expertise - helped to reshape ideas of community, generate new centers of public authority, and change the physical landscape of New York City."--Jacket.