Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

The Assassination of New York

Serier

1 of 45

Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Fakta

The story of how the richest city in the world became one of the poorest in North America, with a new introduction by Peter Kwong

How did New York City come to be a network of steel towers, banks, and nail salons, with chain drugstores on every block—a place where, increasingly, no one can afford to live except the lords of Wall Street and foreign billionaires, and where more and more of the Big Apple’s best-loved businesses have closed their doors? It didn’t start with Michael Bloomberg—or with Robert Moses. As Robert Fitch meticulously demonstrates in this eye-opening book, the planning to assassinate New York began a century ago, as the city’s very richest few—the Morgans, the Mellons, and especially the Rockefellers—looked for ways to maximize the value of their real estate by pushing Gotham’s vibrant and astonishingly varied manufacturing sector out of town, and with it, the city’s working class.

The Assassination of New York attacks a Goliath-like enemy: the real-estate developers who maintain a stranglehold on the city’s most valuable commodity. Their efforts to increase land value by replacing low-rent workers and factories with high-rent professionals and office buildings was one of the single most decisive factors in the city’s downturn. In the 1980s the number of real-estate vacancies eclipsed that of the fiscal crisis of the 1970s. In September of 1992 there was a staggering twenty-five million square feet of empty office space.

Are the city’s problems fixable? How will the future of New York play out through the twenty-first century? Fitch comes up with solutions, from saving jobs to promoting economic diversity to rebuilding the crumbling infrastructure. But it will take vision and hard work to restore New York to what it once was while creating a new and better home for coming generations.

© 2014 Open Road Media (E-bog): 9781453233665

Release date

E-bog: 16. september 2014

Tags

    Andre kan også lide...

    1. The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History. (Two volume set) Michael Kazin
    2. The Murders That Made Us: How Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers, and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay Area Bob Calhoun
    3. Democracy in America Tocqueville Alexis de
    4. Cities in Literature: New York Henry James
    5. Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville
    6. Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President Ron Suskind
    7. The Shoulder of Shasta Bram Stoker
    8. Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson James Marcus
    9. Lady Athlyne Bram Stoker
    10. Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide Samir Chopra
    11. How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life Marcus Tullius Cicero
    12. Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind Johann Gottfried Herder
    13. 1978 Ryan Foley
    14. Twenty Years After I Alexandre Dumas
    15. Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think Helen De Cruz
    16. Stories From the Shadows - Haunted House Bram Stoker
    17. Stories from the Shadows - The 1910's - An Introduction Bram Stoker
    18. The Communist Manifesto: The Political Text that Changed the World Karl Marx
    19. Conflicts: 'Ten years before the war, I was wintering on the Riviera'' Stefan Zweig
    20. The Rise of the Third Reich World History
    21. Stories From the Shadows - Volume 10 H G Wells
    22. The Royal Life Guard or The Flight of the Royal Family Alexandre Dumas
    23. A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution Charles Dickens
    24. Orlando: A Biography Virginia Woolf
    25. Capital: Volumes One and Two Karl Marx
    26. Passion And Pain: 'Now the passion of sport was attaining a fresh climax''' Stefan Zweig
    27. The Search Grace Livingston Hill
    28. The Art of War: Sun Tzu Sun Tzu
    29. The Schoolmaster and Other Stories Anton Chekhov
    30. Forbidden Bookshelf's Resistance in America Collection: Friendly Fascism, The Search for an Abortionist, and Dallas '63 Nancy Howell Lee
    31. Conspiracy in Kiev Noel Hynd
    32. Green Tea Sheridan Le Fanu
    33. The Year Day by Day: Words for Each Day – 365 Days to a Harmonious Life Rolf Jansson
    34. Knights Templar: Lost Secrets Revealed World History
    35. Twenty Four Hours In A Woman’s Life: “There is nothing more for them to do. My wife has run away” Stefan Zweig
    36. Facing the Flag Jules Verne
    37. Night and Day Virginia Woolf
    38. A Connecticut Yankee in King Aruthur's Court Mark Twain
    39. The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle
    40. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature – New and Expanded Edition: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition Erich Auerbach
    41. The Last Immigrant Lau Siew Mei
    42. Scorpion Orchid Lloyd Fernando

    Vælg dit abonnement

    • Over 600.000 titler

    • Download og nyd titler offline

    • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

    • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

    • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

    Flex

    For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

    89 kr. /måned
    • 1 konto

    • 20 timer/måned

    • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

    • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

    • Fri lytning til podcasts

    • Ingen binding

    Prøv gratis
    Den mest populære

    Premium

    For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

    129 kr. /måned
    • 1 konto

    • 100 timer/måned

    • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

    • Fri lytning til podcasts

    • Ingen binding

    Start tilbuddet

    Unlimited

    For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

    149 kr. /måned
    • 1 konto

    • Ubegrænset adgang

    • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

    • Fri lytning til podcasts

    • Ingen binding

    Start tilbuddet

    Family

    For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

    Fra 179 kr. /måned
    • 2-6 konti

    • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

    • Fri lytning til podcasts

    • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

    • Ingen binding

    2 konti

    179 kr. /måned
    Prøv gratis