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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Foreword
Introduction To The Dover Edition
Manhattan As It Once Was
The Lost First Map
Manhattan Found And Lost
Hudson Rediscovers Manhattan
The Invention of New Netherlands
Early Reconnaissance
Spreading The News Of New Amsterdam
Metropolis In Embryo
The Colony In Crisis
New Lisbon
New Amsterdamers In New Jersey
The Brave Place
The Fall of New Amsterdam
The English Survey Their Prize
Dutch Again
The English Domain
Cartographic Illusion: Fortress New York
Expansion Under English Rule
From Town To City
All But Lost
A Citizen’s Map
Mapping From Memory
Early Planned Growth
Charting The Harbor
Clandestine Cartography
A Military Survey Becomes A Masterpiece
Victory in Retreat
Conflagration
Manhattan’s Original Topography Preserved On Paper
Diminished By War
Capital Recovery
A Preliminary Plan for Growth
Fanciful Projection of The Future
The Modern City Grid
A Better Comprehensive Plan
The Randel Survey
Surveying The Waterfront
Postwar Growth
Fire Amid Prosperity
Croton Water Reaches The City
The Old Juxtaposed With The New
Charting The Bay And Harbor With Advanced Methods
Real-Estate Interests Drive Cartography
Insurance Company Surveys
Central Park
Watery Foundations To Growth
The Nation’s Business Center
Uniting Brooklyn And Manhattan
The Promise of Greater New York City
Rapid Transit Under Ground
The “Red Scare”
City of Skyscrapers
Times Square Cleanup
Aviation In The Service of Cartography
Selected Bibliography
Index
Illustration Credits
About The Authors
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