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In 1998, Mike Wallace and Edwin G. Burrows published\u00a0Gotham<\/em>, a history\u2014an entertaining and readable history\u2014of New York City up to 1898. The book would go on to win a Pulitzer Prize. This month, Mike Wallace released the sequel,\u00a0Greater Gotham<\/em>(Oxford, Oct. 2017)<\/a>, which shortens the historical lens (1898 to 1919), telling the story of New York as it entered the 20th century\u2014and a 20-year window that would change world history.<\/p>\n

The thousand-plus-page tome captures a wide-ranging set of issues, including social, political, economic, and cultural forces that shaped New York during that time, but architecture and real estate become central characters\u2014an unsurprising choice given the advances in construction technologies (high-speed, gear-less traction elevators, for example) and the surging demand for space (this was, after all, a period of immense capital accumulation). In a conversation with\u00a0AD<\/em>\u00a0at his home office, Wallace explained one of the central architectural debates of the book\u2019s time period: \u201cIs New York going to look like Paris? Or are we going to be a city of skyscrapers? What sort of city is New York going to be?\u201d<\/p>\n

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From an architectural point of view, Wallace\u2019s historical window was a productive one. There were the\u00a0individual architectural masterpieces<\/a>\u2014the Flatiron, Woolworth, and MetLife buildings (on 23rd Street and Madison Avenue), for example\u2014that would be lasting anchors on the New York skyline. (And, if only to illustrate the author\u2019s range: the word \u201cskyline\u201d itself, so the book explains, also dates to this period, a neologism Wallace traces back to an image caption in an article in\u00a0Journal<\/em>\u00a0from 1896.) Other buildings he features are no longer standing, but they continue to define New York\u2019s architectural story even in their absence. The original Penn Station, for example, endures in the infrastructure it once made accessible\u2014and as an ongoing preservationist allegory.<\/p>\n

But one of the most resonant and lasting architectural stories in Wallace\u2019s telling does not necessarily come in the form of a particular building, but, instead, in the passage of a regulatory code. As buildings reached ever skyward and as demand for real estate intensified, local government saw the need to intervene, culminating with the 1916 Zoning Resolution. This code, the first of its kind in the U.S., specified maximum allowable dimensions for buildings to safeguard the public experience at street level. What this created, most famously, was the so-called New York setback, which mandates tall buildings to taper themselves toward the top, allowing sunlight to reach deeper into the city.<\/p>\n

This is not an architectural history, though. Like the city it explores, there is something for everyone in the book: theater, business, recreation, and human relationships. Readers will likely find it a page-turner. Good thing for them: Wallace, as he explained to\u00a0AD<\/em>, is very nearly finished writing the next sequel, and he is well underway on the sequel to the sequel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1998, Mike Wallace and Edwin G. Burrows published\u00a0Gotham, a history\u2014an entertaining and readable history\u2014of New York City up to 1898. The book would go on to win a Pulitzer Prize. This month, Mike Wallace released the sequel,\u00a0Greater Gotham(Oxford, Oct. 2017), which shortens the historical lens (1898 to 1919), telling the story of New York … <\/p>\n

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