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100	1		_aRevell, Keith D., _d1963- _eauthor. _9417327
245	1	0	_aBuilding Gotham : _bcivic culture and public policy in New York City, 1898-1938 / _cKeith D. Revell.
264		1	_aBaltimore : _bJohn Hopkins University Press, _c[2003]
264		4	_c©2003
300			_ax, 327 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 285-319) and index.
505	0	0	_tIntroduction: Conceiving the New Metropolis: Expertise, Public Policy, and the Problem of Civic Culture in New York City -- _gPt. 1. _tPrivate Infrastructure and Public Policy. _g1. _t"The Public Be Pleased": Railroad Planning, Engineering Culture, and the Promise of Quasi-scientific Voluntarism. _g2. _tBeyond Voluntarism: The Interstate Commerce Commission, the Railroads, and Freight Planning for New York Harbor -- _gPt. 2. _tPublic Infrastructure, Local Autonomy, and Private Wealth. _g3. _tBuccaneer Bureaucrats, Physical Interdependence, and Free Riders: Building the Underground City. _g4. _tTaxing, Spending, and Borrowing: Expanding Public Claims on Private Wealth -- _gPt. 3. _tUrban Planning, Private Rights, and Public Power. _g5. _tCity Planning versus the Law: Zoning the New Metropolis. _g6. _t"They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with brushes of comets' hair": Regional Planning and the Metropolitan Dilemma. _tConclusion: "An almost mystical unity": Interdependence and the Public Interest in the Modern Metropolis.
520	1		_a"In this far-ranging study, Keith D. Revell shows how experts in engineering, law, architecture, public health, public finance, and planning learned to cope with the daunting challenges of collective living on this mammouth scale. Engineers applied new technologies to build railroad tunnels under the Hudson River and construct aqueducts to quench the thirst of a city on the verge of water famine. Sanitarians attempted to clean up a harbor choked by millions of gallons of raw sewage. Economists experimented with new approaches to financing urban infrastructure. Architects and planners wrestled with the problems of skyscraper regulation and regional growth. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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650		0	_aUrban policy _zNew York (State) _zNew York _9645742
650		0	_aCity and town life _zNew York (State) _zNew York _9645747
651		0	_aNew York (N.Y.) _xHistory _y19th century.
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/jhu051/2002000599.html
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