City on a Grid By Gerard Koeppel
| #94172 in Books | Da Capo Press Inc | 2015-11-26 | 2015-11-26 | Original language: English | PDF # 1 | 9.40 x 1.10 x 6.20l, .0 | File type: PDF | 336 pages | File size: 68.Mb
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The many reviews about City on a Grid | By Gerard Koeppel before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised City on a Grid, declaring it one of the best , something that all readers will enjoy.
Most Helpful You either love it or hate it but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan Created in 1811 by a three man commission featuring headstrong Founding Father Gouverneur Morris the plan called for a dozen parallel avenues crossing at right angles with many dozens of parallel streets in an unbroken grid Hills and valleys streams and ponds forests and swamps were invisible to the grid so too were country villages roads farms and estates and generations Advance Praise for City on a Grid Kate Ascher author of The Works Anatomy of a City Rarely does one come across a book that makes you rethink the city you thought you knew Koeppel s masterful story telling does that and more Justin Martin author of bo
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