Atlantic Metropolis An Economic History of New York City /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Gurwitz, Aaron (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in American Economic History,
• Θέματα: Economic history.; Urban economics.; United States-History.; Cities and towns-History.; History, Modern.; Economic History.; Urban Economics.; US History.; Urban History.; Modern History.

This book applies the contents of a working economist's tool-kit to explain, clearly and intuitively, when and why over the course of four centuries individuals, families, and enterprises decided to locate in or around the lower Hudson River Valley. Collectively those millions of decisions have...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I: Pre-contact to the Treaty of Vienna
• 1. Beverstad
• 2. An Island in the Center of its Hinterland
• 3. Port and Entrepot
• Part II: The Displaced Nineteenth Century
• 4. Catastrophic Agglomeration
• 5. A Port in Time
• 6. Manufacturing Employment at Mid-Century
• 7. Huddled Masses of Rational Optimizers
• 8. The Attractions of the Slums
• 9. Money Central
• 10. Global City, Mark 1
• 11. Perfectly Matched and Perfectly Timed
• Part III: The Short Twentieth Century
• 12. Global City in a Less Integrated World
• 13. New York's Great Depression: The Delayed Fade
• 14. Social Democracy and Suburbanization
• 15. All that is Solid Melts into Air
• 16. The Perfect Storm and the Turning Point
• 17. Resurgent Cities
• 18. America's Global City
• 19. A City of Niches and Enclaves.