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This audiobook narrated by William Hope provides an unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to today
America's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades—celebrated and scorned as one of the hippest destinations in the world. In
Brooklyn: The Once and Future City, Thomas J. Campanella unearths long-lost threads of the urban past, telling the rich history of the rise, fall, and reinvention of one of the world's most resurgent cities.
Spanning centuries and neighborhoods, Brooklyn-born Campanella recounts the creation of places familiar and long forgotten, both built and never realized, bringing to life the individuals whose dreams, visions, rackets, and schemes forged the city we know today. He takes us through Brooklyn's history as homeland of the Leni Lenape and its transformation by Dutch colonists into a dense slaveholding region. We learn about English émigré Deborah Moody, whose town of Gravesend was the first founded by a woman in America. We see how wanderlusting Yale dropout Frederick Law Olmsted used Prospect Park to anchor an open space system that was to reach back to Manhattan. And we witness Brooklyn's emergence as a playland of racetracks and amusement parks celebrated around the world.
Campanella also describes Brooklyn's outsized failures, from Samuel Friede's bid to erect the world's tallest building to the long struggle to make Jamaica Bay the world's largest deepwater seaport, and the star-crossed urban renewal, public housing, and highway projects that battered the borough in the postwar era. Campanella reveals how this immigrant Promised Land drew millions, fell victim to its own social anxieties, and yet proved resilient enough to reawaken as a multicultural powerhouse and global symbol of urban vitality.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length22 hrs 23 mins
Narrated byWilliam Hope
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateSep 10, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Anno, Introduction
12Chapter 11 - Salt Marsh of Sunken Dreams
2Chapter 1 - The Natal Shore
13Chapter 12 - Grand Central of the Air
3Chapter 2 - Lady Deborah's City by the Sea
14Chapter 13 - Paradise on the Outwash Plain
4Chapter 3 - Death and the Picturesque
15Chapter 14 - Field of Schemes
5Chapter 4 - Yankee Ways
16Chapter 15 - The Babylonish Brick Kiln
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6Chapter 5 - Whip, Spur, and Saddle
17Chapter 16 - Colossus of Roads
7Chapter 6 - The Isle of Offal and Bones
18Chapter 17 - Highway of Hope
8Chapter 7 - A House for the God of Speed
19Chapter 18 - Book of Exodus
9Chapter 8 - The Steampunk Orb
20Epilogue: Under the Tungsten Sun
10Chapter 9 - Port of Empire
21Acknowledgements, Closing Anno
11Chapter 10 - The Ministry of Improvement
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