The Resource Brooklyn : the once and future city, Thomas J. Campanella
Brooklyn : the once and future city, Thomas J. Campanella
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- Summary
- "An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to today. America's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades--celebrated and scorned as one of the hippest destinations in the world. In Brooklyn: The Once and Future City, Thomas J. Campanella unearths long-lost threads of the urban past, telling the rich history of the rise, fall, and reinvention of one of the world's most resurgent cities. Spanning centuries and neighborhoods, Brooklyn-born Campanella recounts the creation of places familiar and long forgotten, both built and never realized, bringing to life the individuals whose dreams, visions, rackets, and schemes forged the city we know today. He takes us through Brooklyn's history as homeland of the Leni Lenape and its transformation by Dutch colonists into a dense slaveholding region. We learn about English émigré Deborah Moody, whose town of Gravesend was the first founded by a woman in America. We see how wanderlusting Yale dropout Frederick Law Olmsted used Prospect Park to anchor an open space system that was to reach back to Manhattan. And we witness Brooklyn's emergence as a playland of racetracks and amusement parks celebrated around the world. Campanella also describes Brooklyn's outsized failures, from Samuel Friede's bid to erect the world's tallest building to the long struggle to make Jamaica Bay the world's largest deepwater seaport, and the star-crossed urban renewal, public housing, and highway projects that battered the borough in the postwar era. Campanella reveals how this immigrant Promised Land drew millions, fell victim to its own social anxieties, and yet proved resilient enough to reawaken as a multicultural powerhouse and global symbol of urban vitality"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 533 pages
- Contents
-
- The natal shore
- Lady Deborah's city by the sea
- Death and the picturesque
- Yankee ways
- Whip, spur, and saddle
- The isle of offal and bones
- A house for the god of speed
- The steampunk orb
- Port of empire
- The ministry of improvement
- Salt marsh of sunken dreams
- Grand central of the air
- Paradise on the outwash plain
- Field of schemes
- The Babylonish brick kiln
- Colossus of roads
- Highway of hope
- Book of exodus
- Epilogue: Under a tungsten sun
- Isbn
- 9780691165387
- Label
- Brooklyn : the once and future city
- Title
- Brooklyn
- Title remainder
- the once and future city
- Statement of responsibility
- Thomas J. Campanella
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to today. America's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades--celebrated and scorned as one of the hippest destinations in the world. In Brooklyn: The Once and Future City, Thomas J. Campanella unearths long-lost threads of the urban past, telling the rich history of the rise, fall, and reinvention of one of the world's most resurgent cities. Spanning centuries and neighborhoods, Brooklyn-born Campanella recounts the creation of places familiar and long forgotten, both built and never realized, bringing to life the individuals whose dreams, visions, rackets, and schemes forged the city we know today. He takes us through Brooklyn's history as homeland of the Leni Lenape and its transformation by Dutch colonists into a dense slaveholding region. We learn about English émigré Deborah Moody, whose town of Gravesend was the first founded by a woman in America. We see how wanderlusting Yale dropout Frederick Law Olmsted used Prospect Park to anchor an open space system that was to reach back to Manhattan. And we witness Brooklyn's emergence as a playland of racetracks and amusement parks celebrated around the world. Campanella also describes Brooklyn's outsized failures, from Samuel Friede's bid to erect the world's tallest building to the long struggle to make Jamaica Bay the world's largest deepwater seaport, and the star-crossed urban renewal, public housing, and highway projects that battered the borough in the postwar era. Campanella reveals how this immigrant Promised Land drew millions, fell victim to its own social anxieties, and yet proved resilient enough to reawaken as a multicultural powerhouse and global symbol of urban vitality"--
- Assigning source
- Book jacket
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Campanella, Thomas J
- Dewey number
- 974.7/23
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- F129.B7
- LC item number
- C36 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Manners and customs
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- New York (State)
- Label
- Brooklyn : the once and future city, Thomas J. Campanella
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The natal shore -- Lady Deborah's city by the sea -- Death and the picturesque -- Yankee ways -- Whip, spur, and saddle -- The isle of offal and bones -- A house for the god of speed -- The steampunk orb -- Port of empire -- The ministry of improvement -- Salt marsh of sunken dreams -- Grand central of the air -- Paradise on the outwash plain -- Field of schemes -- The Babylonish brick kiln -- Colossus of roads -- Highway of hope -- Book of exodus -- Epilogue: Under a tungsten sun
- Dimensions
- 26 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 533 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691165387
- Lccn
- 2018966370
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1089408144
- Label
- Brooklyn : the once and future city, Thomas J. Campanella
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The natal shore -- Lady Deborah's city by the sea -- Death and the picturesque -- Yankee ways -- Whip, spur, and saddle -- The isle of offal and bones -- A house for the god of speed -- The steampunk orb -- Port of empire -- The ministry of improvement -- Salt marsh of sunken dreams -- Grand central of the air -- Paradise on the outwash plain -- Field of schemes -- The Babylonish brick kiln -- Colossus of roads -- Highway of hope -- Book of exodus -- Epilogue: Under a tungsten sun
- Dimensions
- 26 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 533 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691165387
- Lccn
- 2018966370
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1089408144
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