Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City's Landmarks

by Anthony Wood (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2007

  $51.82

  Tells the story of the origins of New York City's nationally acclaimed landmarks law. The decades of struggle behind the law, its intellectual origins, the men and women who fought for it, the forces that shaped it, and the buildings lost and saved on the way to its ultimate passage, span from 1913 to 1965.