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Mar 5, 2025 51 min

Building the Metropolis

from The Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Construction history is entirely unfamiliar to most scholars, and yet it is a crucial part of urban history. Alexander Wood joins the show to discuss how New York City was built from blueprints to scaffolding to demolition. Essential Reading: Alexander Wood, Building the Metropolis: Architecture, Construction, and Labor in New York City, 1880–1935 (2025). Recommended Reading: Joanne Abel Goldman, Building New York's Sewers: Developing Mechanisms of Urban Management (1997). Gerard Koeppel, City on a Grid: How New York Became New York (2015). Mike Wallace, Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 (2017).

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