NEW YORK CIVIC EXPLOITATION 1970 hb1st anti-development

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Here, beyond the control and exceeding the
understanding of New Yorkers, the omnipotent
Port of New York Authority will impose its
monstrous World Trade Center upon the city.

FROM THE DUST JACKET:

New York is the world-city and the city-as-world -- a towering, awe-inspiring center of finance, trade, communications, manufacturing and art. The traditional American "melting pot," it has become an explosively vital pressure cooker for every race, nationality, language, creed and culture known to man.

The city is so vast and variegated as to elude definition and defy reason; it is a man-made environment gone out of control -- too big for its government, too impersonal, powerful and fast-paced for its inhabitants. It has been all things to all men, but primarily an exploitation machine to most. Over the centuries corruption has spread like a moral slum, graft like rubbish-littered streets, and private greed like an all-pervasive smog, to smother every attempt at civic reform or improvement. Today the ever-sharpening social and economic tensions between rich and poor, native and immigrant, black and white, threaten New York's very existence.

In this Urban Portrait Robert Goldston and Donald Carrick take their readers behind the aluminum-and-glass facade of New York's proud towers to show the city's past growing into its present, its government, its citizens -- reformers, exploiters and the exploited -- its plans and hopes and the forces that may prevent their realization. Whether New York can regain control of its environment and turn it toward humane rather than exploitive ends may determine not only its own fate, but the fate of urban civilization throughout the world.

ROBERT GOLDSTON is the author of a number of highly acclaimed books both for adults and for young readers. Among them are London: The Civic Spirit, Barcelona: The Civic Stage, Suburbia: Civic Denial (all Portraits in Urban Civilization), The Negro Revolution, The Great Depression, The Russian Revolution, The Civil War in Spain, The Life and Death of Nazi Germany, and Spain (a Nations Today Book). He was born in mid-Manhattan and raised both in New York City and its immediate suburbs.

DONALD CARRICK has illustrated four books written by his wife, Carol Carrick, including The Old Barn, The Brook, Swamp Spring and The Pond, as well as three other Portraits in Urban Civilization, London: The Civic Spirit, Barcelona: The Civic Stage, and Suburbia: Civic Denial. He lives with his wife and child in New York City.

CONTENTS:

• Prologue: East Side, West Side
• Father Knickerbocker's Diary
• Father Knickerbocker's Nightmare
• Little Old New York
• New York's Metabolism
• Not So Much a City, More a Way of Life
• Order Out of Chaos?
• Epilogue: "Look on My Works, Ye Mighty . . ."
• Index

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