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Bezig met laden... New York: A Physical Historydoor Norval White
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White tackles 400 years of the city's physical history through 18 chapters. The successive chapters are thematic, though they follow a roughly chronological order, moving from "The Virgin Place" in the first chapter to "Counterculture, a Recycled City, and Tomorrow" in the last. Within each chapter the content flows chronologically, such that the "Patrons" of chapter 14, for instance, range from John Jacob Astor and other money men in the 1800s to the corporations and public authorities in power in the 1980s. Like the AIA Guides, White's descriptions balance fact and opinion, the latter usually on target. Furthermore, given how much time and how many themes he tackles, those descriptions end up being relatively short, just like the guides. Regardless, this book proves that White could also write narratives – 18 great ones here. ( )