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Empire city : the making and meaning of the New York City landscape

In June 1984, Jane Golden, a young muralist from Margate, New Jersey, headed up a project that was originally planned as a six-week youth program in the fledgling Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network. This title presents an illustrated chronicle of the Mural Arts Program.
Print Book, English, 2002
Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2002
History
xi, 340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
9781566399500, 9781566399517, 9781592132355, 1566399505, 1566399513, 1592132359
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Introduction : can a city be planned?
Metropolis and nation
The midcentury boom
The rule of real estate
The frictions of space
Imagining the imperial metropolis
The politics of city building
Uptown utopia
The failure of Bourgeois urbanism