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Title: Lost New York, Revised and Updated Edition by Nathan Silver ISBN: 0-618-05475-8 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 08 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Past Recaptured
Comment: Mr. Silver has a poetic prose style, revealing a most poetic soul, and frames his message of architectural conservation and adaptation through a highly effective personal lens of incredulity and nostalgia, articulating what most readers subconsciously knew but probably never take the time to think about: that architecture is the most accesible and inescapable reminder of urban culture at a given moment; that while culture evolves and architecture becomes artifact, these artifacts can often continue - through thoughtful planning and incentives - to live and to serve without economic detriment to their owners; and that rapacious, self-serving obliteration of our architectural past is the obliteration of cultural evolution and memory.
I would like to see Mr. Silver now produce a companion volume to LOST NEW YORK, a book about what has been saved.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Success on Two Counts
Comment: IF the reviewer below is really Nathan Silver, I congratulate him on the shift of gears from his 1968 version of LOST NEW YORK to this one. (Even if it's not him, I congratulate him anyway.) The first edition was heavy on the preservation/conservation debate while this one is more reflective and personal. In both instances, however, Mr. Silver has made an incredible contribution to the study of New York history--not just its architecture, but to the thinking that went into the creation of these lost structures, and the lack of thinking that destroyed them.
Like Jane Jacobs, Mr. Silver shares a passion for the city and how its monuments, public buildings and spaces, and private residences have a direct and fortifying effect on its citizens. The photographs are stunning, as is the quality of the printing. Mr. Silver's text is equally powerful and just as relevant. At times the effect of seeing these representations of a lost time, and reading about their ends, can be upsetting; the sense of loss is very powerful. But there is a point to all of it beyond the seeming nostalgia: we had better start appreciating those gems of the past that are still rooted in the schist of Manhattan before they wind up in the next edition of LOST NEW YORK.
One last note: As rebuilding begins on the site of the World Trade Center (a part of lost New York that wasn't our fault), this book indirectly compels New Yorkers to participate in some forward-thinking. It makes one wonder, not only what was lost to us, but what will we give to future generations?
Rocco Dormarunno,
author of THE FIVE POINTS
Rating: 5
Summary: Lost New York
Comment: The book Lost New York by Nathan Silver is one of the best photo and information books ever writen. Old photos and information on land marks in New York City which have been torn down. Shows you how buitiful a city is but also how little care some people can have for it's treasures
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Title: The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of Nearly 400 Years of New York City's History by Eric Homberger ISBN: 0805060049 Publisher: Owl Books (NY) Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Invisible New York: The Hidden Infrastructure of the City by Stanley Greenberg, Thomas H. Garver ISBN: 080185945X Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $36.00 |
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Title: Old New York in Early Photographs: 1853-1901 by New-York Historical Society, Mary Black ISBN: 0486229076 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 November, 1973 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Invisible Frontier: Exploring the Tunnels, Ruins, and Rooftops of Hidden New York by L. B. Deyo, David Leibowitz ISBN: 0609809318 Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA) Pub. Date: 22 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: New York Then and Now: 83 Manhattan Sites Photographed in the Past and in the Present by Edward B. Watson, Edmund Vincent Gillon ISBN: 0486233618 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 March, 1977 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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