Taming Manhattan

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Taming Manhattan is written by Catherine McNeur and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674745140 (ISBN 10) and 9780674745148 (ISBN 13).

From 1815 to 1865, as city blocks encroached on farmland to accommodate Manhattan’s exploding population, prosperous New Yorkers developed new ideas about what an urban environment should contain—ideas that poorer immigrants resisted. As Catherine McNeur shows, taming Manhattan came at the cost of amplifying environmental and economic disparities.