The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 by Hilary Ballon, Museum of the City of New York (NY-USA)

The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011

Hilary Ballon, Museum of the City of New York (NY-USA)

224 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Laying out Manhattan's street grid and providing a rationale for the growth of New York was the city's first great civic enterprise, not to mention a brazenly ambitious project and major milestone in the history of city planning. The grid created ...

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