Brooklyn : the once and future city /
An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to today. America's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades, celebrated and scorned as one of...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- The natal shore
- Lady Deborah's city by the sea
- Death and the picturesque
- Yankee ways
- Whip, spur, and saddle
- The isle of offal and bones
- A house for the god of speed
- The steampunk orb
- Port of empire
- The ministry of improvement
- Salt marsh of sunken dreams
- Grand central of the air
- Paradise on the outwash plain
- Field of schemes
- The Babylonish brick kiln
- Colossus of roads
- Highway of hope
- Book of exodus
- Epilogue: Under a tungsten sun.