New York 1880 Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age

"Given the number of illustrations, one might think this a picture book, and it would not be a surprise if more people scanned its illustrations than read its text. There is a long introductory essay, densely packed sections on building types (or, in current architecture-speak, 'places') and a hundred pages crammed with footnotes. This is an amazingly thorough work of synthetic scholarship. All that is missing is systematic data about whether or not a building still stands, and if not, when it was demolished. Cryptic captions fail to give this important information, and the vintage photographs themselves offer no help.Stern, Robert A. M. is the author of 'New York 1880 Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age' with ISBN 9781580930277 and ISBN 1580930271.