Essential New York: A Guide to the History and Architecture of Manhattan's Important Buildings, Parks, and Bridges

Essential New York: A guide to the history and architecture of Manhattan's important buildings, parks, and bridges

History

Tauranac, John

Americas

New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, c1979. 1979; c

Henry Holt & Company, Inc.

The Empire State Building is the companion volume to the Museum of the City of New York's definitive exhibition: "A Dream Well Planned: The Empire State Building."

Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark

St. Martin's: Griffin

A fascinating combination of architecture and cultural history offers a comprehensive chronicle that captures the excitement and politics involved in the building of the Empire State Building, the technological breakthroughs of its construction, and more. 15,000 first printing.

EMPIRE STATE BUILDING: The Making of a Landmark

Scribner

The Empire State Building is the landmark book on one of the world’s most notable landmarks. Since its publication in 1995, John Tauranac’s book, focused on the inception and creation of the building, has stood as the most comprehensive account of the structure. Moreover, it is far more than a work in architectural history; Tauranac tells a larger story of the politics of urban development in and through the interwar years. In a new epilogue to the Cornell edition, Tauranac highlights the continuing resonance and influence of the Empire State Building in the rapidly changing post-9/11 cityscape.

The Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark

Cornell University Press

Aerial photographs of the famous landmarks, historic buildings, and local neighborhoods of New York provide a birds-eye-view of one of America's major cities

New York from the Air

Arts & Photography

Arthus-Bertrand, Yann.

Photography & Video

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

From the street, New York is a bustling, familiar world. Seen from the air, it's an exotic, uncluttered, beautiful place. From vantage points that few people ever attain, world-renowned aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand has created a lush, romantic tribute to one of the most thrilling cities in history. He reveals the power and beauty of Manhattan's amazing skyscrapers, the bucolic joys of Central Park, and the majesty of the Upper West Side's castle-like apartment buildings. John Tauranac's lively commentaries lead readers on a truly spectacular tour. Now, as never before, this book calls to mind all that there is to cherish and celebrate about New York City—and America.

New York from the Air: An Architectural Heritage

Individual Artists

Harry N. Abrams

Completely updated with new photographs and text, New York from the Air is a lush, romantic, and ultimately hopeful tribute to one of the most thrilling cities in history. World-renowned bestselling photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand—shooting from vantage points few people ever attain—presents the power and beauty of Manhattan’s amazing skyscrapers, the bucolic joys of Central Park, the majesty of the Upper West Side’s castlelike apartment buildings, and much, much more. This new edition includes unpublished photographs of landmarks built since the 2003 edition. New York historian and cartographer John Tauranac’s lively commentaries lead readers on a truly spectacular tour from above the city that never sleeps. Praise for New York from the Air: “No one, though, has revealed New York from above as vividly as Yann Arthus-Bertrand, the Paris-based photographer who has made a career of providing a heavenly perspective on the planet Earth. In his book, New York from the Air: A Story of Architecture (Abrams), he invokes Sartre in the preface, and transforms even the most ordinary street-level scenes into majestic, abstract cityscapes.” —New York Times “Above IT ALL. New York from the Air hits new heights with fresh photos of an ever-evolving city.”
 —New York Daily News

New York from the Air: A Story of Architecture

Two hundred fifty architectural illustrations enhance this social history of New York, beginning with the era of its first magnificent palaces and grand hotels

Elegant New York: The Builders and the Buildings 1885-1915

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Abbeville Press

This is an elegant and surprising biography of a 65-year-old building that, no longer the tallest in the world, has endured as the symbol of New York City, the epitome of the sky scraper and the very icon of progress the world over. "A richly informative account of the raising of the world's most famous skyscraper".--Chicago Tribune. photos.

Architecture

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Essential New York: A guide to the history and architecture of Manhattan's important buildings, parks, and bridges

Essential New York: A Guide to the History and Architecture of Manhattan's Important Buildings, Parks, and Bridges

Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark

EMPIRE STATE BUILDING: The Making of a Landmark

The Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark

New York from the Air

New York from the Air: An Architectural Heritage

New York from the Air: A Story of Architecture

Elegant New York: The Builders and the Buildings 1885-1915

EMPIRE STATE BUILDING: The Making of a Landmark