City of Fortune - Mason B. Williams

Postwar New York City famously expired in a tableau of burning Bronx tenements, subway graffiti and crushing debt. The city reemerged from the ashes to reach new heights, whether in stock averages or the gleaming pencil towers punctuating midtown. But at ground level the city’s basic institutions—its housing, its schools, its public safety—were cracking. The city was rebuilt on a foundation of deep inequality. This elegant history traces the making of contemporary New York over the half-century... Zobrazit více