Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

List of Illustrations

Pt. I

Introduction

1

Between Rationalism and Pluralism: Creating the Modern City

3

Pt. II

Planning for New York City

2

Regulating the Landscape: Real Estate Values, City Planning, and the 1916 Zoning Ordinance

19

3

Density and Intervention: New York's Planning Traditions

46

4

Joining New York City to the Greater Metropolis: The Port Authority as Visionary, Target of Opportunity, and Opportunist

76

5

The Regional Plan and the Transformation of the Industrial Metropolis

106

Pt. III

Building the Vertical City

6

Corporate Identity and the New York Office Building: 1895-1915

129

7

Form Follows Finance: The Empire State Building

160

Pt. IV

Going from Home to Work

8

Subways, Transit Politics, and Metropolitan Spatial Expansion

191

9

Sweatshop Migrations: The Garment Industry Between Home and Shop

213

Pt. V

Fighting for Identity

10

Little Italy's Decline: Immigrant Renters and Investors in a Changing City

235

11

On the Fringes of the City: Jewish Neighborhoods in Three Boroughs

252

12

Cities of Light, Landscapes of Pleasure

273

13

The Pushcart Evil

287

Pt. VI

Completing the Landscape

14

Fiorello H. LaGuardia and the Challenge of Democratic Planning

315

Selected References

331

Index

343