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City on a grid : how New York became New York

"City on a Grid tells--for the first time--the fascinating story of the creation and long life of New York City's distinctive street grid: its many streets crossed at right angles by a few parallel avenues laid upon a rural Manhattan two centuries ago. The grid made New York what it is tod...

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Main Author: Koeppel, Gerard T., 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2015]
Subjects and Genres:
City planning > New York (State) > New York > History.
Streets > New York (State) > New York > History.
Grids (Crisscross patterns) > New York (State) > New York > History.
City and town life > New York (State) > New York > History.
Social change > New York (State) > New York > History.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > History.
New York (N.Y.) > History.
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Call Number: UNY HT 168 .N5 K64 2015
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