Building Gotham : civic culture and public policy in New York city, 1898-1938 (Record no. 3644)
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| fixed length control field | 01525nam a2200157Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0801870739 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 307.76 |
| Item number | REV |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Revell, Keith D. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Building Gotham : civic culture and public policy in New York city, 1898-1938 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Baltimore |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Johns Hopkins Uni. Press. |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2003 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xi,327p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | CONTENTS: Preface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Conceiving the New Metropolis: 1 Expertise, Public Policy, and the Problem of Civic Culture in New York City PART 1: Private Infrastructure and Public Policy 15 1. The Public Be Pleased: Railroad Planning, Engineering 17 Culture, and the Promise of Quasi-scientific Voluntarism 2. Beyond Voluntarism: The Interstate Commerce 58 Commission, the Railroads, and Freight Planning for New York Harbor PART 2: Public Infrastructure, Local Autonomy, and Private Wealth 99 3. Buccaneer Bureaucrats, Physical Interdependence, and 101 Free Riders: Building the Underground City 4. Taxing, Spending, and Borrowing: Expanding Public Claims on Private Wealth 143 PART 3: Urban Planning, Private Rights, and Public Power 183 5. City Planning versus the Law: Zoning the New Metropolis 185 6. They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with 227 brushes of comets' hair: Regional Planning and the Metropolitan Dilemma Conclusion: An almost mystical unity: 268 Interdependence and the Public Interest in the Modern Metropolis Appendix 281 Notes 285 Index 321 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Technology and state |
| -- | Urban policy |
| -- | New York (State)--New York |
| -- | City planning |
| -- | City and town life |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Environmental protection |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Technology transfer |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Developing countries |
| 890 ## - COUNTRY | |
| -- | United States |
| 891 ## - TOPIC | |
| -- | GRATIS |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total Checkouts | Total Renewals | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date checked out | Price effective from | Koha item type | Public note |
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| CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 07/12/2009 | Nihal Perera | 5 | 4 | 307.76 REV | 005597 | 13/03/2023 | 18/02/2023 | 30/08/2013 | Book | Status:Catalogued;Bill No:GRATIS |