Stern, Robert A. M.

New York 1900 : metropolitan architecture and urbanism, 1890-1915 / by Robert A.M. Stern, Gregory Gilmartin, John Montague Massengale - 1st paperback ed. - N. Y. : Rizzoli, 1995 - 502 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Preface. - Age of metropolitanism : stages of metropolitanism. - Civic structure : city planning, transportation. - Civic grandeur : civic center, buildings for public service, the federal presence, schools, culture and learning, churches, monuments and memorials, recreation. - Palaces of production : office buildings, banks and commerce, stores. - Palaces of pleasure : theaters, roof gardens, clubs, coney islands. - Palaces for the people : hotels, apartment hotels, apartments. - Metropolitan neighborhoods : billionaire district, the West End, morningside heights, suburbs. - Afterword. - Photographic sources. - Notes. - Index.

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