Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's ""metropolis,"" New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innovation and reform. The horrors of the tenement were perfected in New York at the same time that...

Chicago and New York share similar backgrounds but have had strikingly different fates. Tracing their fortunes from the 1930s to the present day, Ester R. Fuchs examines key policy decisions which have influenced the political structures of these cities and guided them into, or clear of, periods...

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 A Region Develops -- 2 Downtown Retailers and "Main Street Towns -- 3 Selling in Hub and Hinterland -- 4 The "Chain Store Question" and the Independent Retailer -- 5 The Depression and Local Spending -- 6 Hard Times and...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Preface -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Prologue: The Informer -- 1. A City at War -- 2. Admiral Hardy and the Smugglers -- 3. Frenchified Bottoms -- 4. Mountmen -- 5. Flag-Trucers -- 6. Mixed Messages -- 7. Business as Usual -- 8. Crackdown -- 9....

This history of New York culture and commerce in the first two thirds of the eighteenth century tells how the volatile forces of imperial politics and commerce created a fluid society in which establishing one's own status or verifying another's was a challenge.

Public Housing That Worked offers a comprehensive history of America's largest and most successful housing authority. The New York City Housing Authority pioneered, and still maintains, rigorous systems of public housing management that allowed it to avoid the downward spiral experienced by most...

William Sites proposes a new perspective on politics, globalization, and the city through the concept of primitive globalization, identifying a pattern of reactive politics that facilitates a damaging type of international integration. Sites examines the

""I got to be a millionaire afore I know'd it hardly,"" remarked the Wall Street financier Daniel Drew (1797-1879). An uneducated farm boy from Putnam County, New York, he became in turn a successful cattle drover, a circus clown, tavern keeper, a shrewd Hudson River steamboat operator, and an...