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The city that never was : two hundred years of fantastic and fascinating plans that might have changed the face of New York City /

By:

Shanor, Rebecca Read

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1988.Description: xvii, 254 p. : ill. ; 29 cmISBN:

0670805580 (hc.)
0140077936 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

307.1/2/097471 19

LOC classification:

HT168.N5 S53 1988

Summary: Can You Imagine New York City With ... - Elevated Sidewalks? - A pontoon Bridge across the Hudson ? - A windowless, Pneumatic Car running above ground? - Jones Park Instead of Central Park ? - An Express through lower Manhattan ? - These were not just fantastic notions but real projects that were scrapped though the years due to lack of funds, public outcry, or sheer preposterousness. The city that Never Was reconstructs plans for these and many more projects-wonderful or impossible, use-ful or self-aggrandizing - that never came to be. Filled withhold photo-graphs, schematic,s and drawings, this book paints a fascinating portrait of the sometimes haphazard, sometimes inspired growth of a great and complex city.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Reference	Carleton University, AVRC	Richardson Collection - Non CIrculating - Call No. Accompanied by Red Dot	Open-stacks	HT168.N5 S53 1988 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		16055001208

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 237-241.

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