New York, New York, New York: Four Decades Of Success, Excess, And Transformation

  • Autor: Thomas Dyja
  • Narrador: Jacques Roy
  • Editora: Simon & Schuster
  • Duração: 17:22:55
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Sinopse

A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City’s transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city’s future.

Dangerous, filthy, and falling apart, garbage piled on its streets and entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble; New York’s terrifying, if liberating, state of nature in 1978 also made it the capital of American culture. Over the next thirty-plus years, though, it became a different place—kinder and meaner, richer and poorer, more like America and less like what it had always been.

New York, New York, New York, Thomas Dyja’s sweeping account of this metamorphosis, shows it wasn’t the work of a single policy, mastermind, or economic theory, nor was it a morality tale of gentrification or crime. Instead, three New Yorks evolved in turn. After brutal retrenchment came the dazzling Koch Renaissance and the Dinkins years that left the city’s liberal traditions battered but laid the foundation for the safe streets and dotcom excess of Giuliani’s Reformation in the ‘90s. Then the planes hit on 9/11. The shaky city handed itself over to Bloomberg who merged City Hall into his personal empire, launching its Reimagination. From Hip Hop crews to Wall Street bankers, D.V. to Jay-Z, Dyja weaves New Yorkers famous, infamous, and unknown—Yuppies, hipsters, tech nerds, and artists; community organizers and the immigrants who made this a truly global place—into a narrative of a city creating ways of life that would ultimately change cities everywhere.

With great success, though, came grave mistakes. The urbanism that reclaimed public space became a means of control, the police who made streets safe became an occupying army, technology went from a means to the end. Now, as anxiety fills New Yorker’s hearts and empties its public spaces, it’s clear that what brought the city back—proximity, density, and human exchange—are what sent Covid-19 burning through its streets, and the price of order has come due. A fourth evolution is happening and we must understand that the greatest challenge ahead is the one New York failed in the first three: The cures must not be worse than the disease.

Exhaustively researched, passionately told, New York, New York, New York is a colorful, inspiring guide to not just rebuilding but reimagining a great city.

Capítulos

  • 021 NewYorkNewYorkNewYork Chapter17 YouWereOnYourOwn

    Duração: 37min
  • 022 NewYorkNewYorkNewYork Part3Reformation Chapter18 MoreLikeTheRestOfAmerica

    Duração: 24min
  • 023 NewYorkNewYorkNewYork Chapter19 LarcenyInEveryonesHeart

    Duração: 29min
  • 024 NewYorkNewYorkNewYork Chapter20 CyberCity

    Duração: 25min
  • 025 NewYorkNewYorkNewYork Chapter21 WhoseWorldIsThis

    Duração: 33min
  • 026 NewYorkNewYorkNewYork Chapter22 HeatIsQuality

    Duração: 26min
  • 027 NewYorkNewYorkNewYork Chapter23 StandClearOfTheClosingDoors

    Duração: 40min
  • 028 NewYorkNewYorkNewYork September11,2001

    Duração: 30min
  • 029 NewYorkNewYorkNewYork Part4Reimagination Chapter24 ThePileThePitAndTheBullpen

    Duração: 30min
  • 030 NewYorkNewYorkNewYork Chapter25 OzWasntBuiltInADay

    Duração: 26min
  • 031 NewYorkNewYorkNewYork Chapter26 BklynCheersTrembles

    Duração: 22min
  • 032 NewYorkNewYorkNewYork Chapter27 TooBigToFail

    Duração: 39min
  • 033 NewYorkNewYorkNewYork Chapter28 HardLandings

    Duração: 51min
  • 034 NewYorkNewYorkNewYork Epilogue

    Duração: 48min
  • 035 NewYorkNewYorkNewYork Close

    Duração: 29s
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