New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation

A New York Times Notable Book A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York...
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Author: Thomas Dyja
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New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation by Dyja, Thomas

New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation

¥4,694

New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation

¥4,694
Author: Thomas Dyja
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A New York Times Notable Book

A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City's transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city's future.

Dangerous, filthy, and falling apart, garbage piled on its streets and entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble; New York's terrifying, if liberating, state of nature in 1978 also made it the capital of American culture. Over the next thirty-plus years, though, it became a different place--kinder and meaner, richer and poorer, more like America and less like what it had always been.

New York, New York, New York, Thomas Dyja's sweeping account of this metamorphosis, shows it wasn't the work of a single policy, mastermind, or economic theory, nor was it a morality tale of gentrification or crime. Instead, three New Yorks evolved in turn. After brutal retrenchment came the dazzling Koch Renaissance and the Dinkins years that left the city's liberal traditions battered but laid the foundation for the safe streets and dotcom excess of Giuliani's Reformation in the '90s. Then the planes hit on 9/11. The shaky city handed itself over to Bloomberg who merged City Hall into his personal empire, launching its Reimagination. From Hip Hop crews to Wall Street bankers, D.V. to Jay-Z, Dyja weaves New Yorkers famous, infamous, and unknown--Yuppies, hipsters, tech nerds, and artists; community organizers and the immigrants who made this a truly global place--into a narrative of a city creating ways of life that would ultimately change cities everywhere.

With great success, though, came grave mistakes. The urbanism that reclaimed public space became a means of control, the police who made streets safe became an occupying army, technology went from a means to the end. Now, as anxiety fills New Yorker's hearts and empties its public spaces, it's clear that what brought the city back--proximity, density, and human exchange--are what sent Covid-19 burning through its streets, and the price of order has come due. A fourth evolution is happening and we must understand that the greatest challenge ahead is the one New York failed in the first three: The cures must not be worse than the disease.

Exhaustively researched, passionately told, New York, New York, New York is a colorful, inspiring guide to not just rebuilding but reimagining a great city.

Author: Thomas Dyja
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 03/15/2022
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9781982149796

About the Author
Thomas Dyja is the author of the award-winning The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream, as well as three novels. He lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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