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Come hither old grid -- Five acres and a rule: the great grid's common origins -- The city to be or not to be? -- The city not to be -- Now what? -- Three man island -- Into the woods -- A grid is born -- Getting square with right-angled living -- The grid that ate Manhattan -- The city gridded -- The city unbeautiful -- Back to the rectilinear future.;"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 today, and defined the urbanism of a rising nation. When it was first conceived at the start of the nineteenth century, the grid was intended to bring order to the chaos of 'Old New York'--the quaint, low-scale, but notoriously dirty and disorderly place of jumbled colonial streets that had sprouted from the southern tip of the island from its earliest days. Turning the swamps and hills of Manhattan into the city we know today was a project on the scale of building the Erie or Panama Canals or the Transcontinental Railway. Like those epics, it is a sto

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Author

Koeppel, Gerard T

Publisher

Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780306902161

Category

history

Subjects

Sociology, History, Social Science

Rating

3.5 / 5 (90 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14