Urban Design and Architecture Studies

The first detailed study of "Neo-Antique" architecture applies an archaeological lens to the study of New York City's structures This work looks at many of the city's most iconic buildings and monuments, including Grand Central Terminal and the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch in Brooklyn, as well as forgotten gems such as Snug Harbor on Staten Island and the Gould Memorial Library in the Bronx.

Drawing on the collection of original designs for Central Park in the New York City Municipal Archives, Cynthia S. Brenwall tells the story of the creation of New York's great public park, from its conception to its completion. The material ranges from the original winning competition entry; to meticulously detailed maps; to plans and elevations of buildings, to intricate engineering drawings of infrastructure elements.

New York towers among world capitals, but the city we know might have reached even more stellar heights, or burrowed into more destructive depths, had the ideas pictured in the minds of its greatest dreamers progressed beyond the drawing board and taken form in stone, steel, and glass.

In the popular imagination, the controversial 1963 demolition of Pennsylvania Station gave birth to New York CityOCOs historic preservation movement. As Randall Mason reveals, however, historic preservation has been a persistent force in the development of New York since the 1890s.The Once and Future New York documents the emergence of historic preservation in New York at the turn of the twentieth century.

From the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times--the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it.

One of the nation's foremost urban historians traces the history of cooperative housing in New York City from the 1920s through the 1970s. Working-Class Utopias is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the housing problem that continues to plague New York and cities across the nation.

The Stonewall Riots discusses how in 1969, Greenwich Village became the center of a movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights.

Around Washington Square offers a history of Greenwich Village, illustrated with more than 200 photographs and engravings. The neighborhood known today as Greenwich Village reached its social apogee in the 1850s and 1860s as the home of New York's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. Preservation battles in the 1950s and 1960s over the opposing ideas of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs left the Village fabric largely intact. Concluding with the neighborhood’s decline in the 1970s and renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s, Around Washington Square captures the charm, energy and individuality of Greenwich Village.