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title: "City on a Grid: How New York Became New York Paperback – Illustrated, April 4, 2017"
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# City on a Grid: How New York Became New York Paperback – Illustrated, April 4, 2017

**Brand:** gerard koeppel
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- **What is this?** City on a Grid: How New York Became New York Paperback – Illustrated, April 4, 2017 by gerard koeppel
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## Customer Reviews

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    A mini-history with no real information
  

*by T***P on Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2019*

This book suffers from what many of these mini-histories tend to: they don't have a lot to talk about with regards to the main topic, so it goes off on long jaunts about the background and life of ancillary characters who, in reality, had little or nothing to do with the topic. Once we get around to hearing about a person's business issues, their personal story, their travel, the size of their feet, we get excited about how important this person must have been in the process of creating the city on the grid, then their story ends with "he did or said something that was of minor importance" and then the book moves on. It isn't interesting or fun.

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    Informative but also enjoyable
  

*by P***N on Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2015*

I am engrossed in this book. I thought I was fairly knowledgeable about NYC, but this is a whole different angle, if you will. Gerald Koeppel really alters your view of the city and provides fascinating stories about how the city has grown from "villages" to the grid. His voice is really entertaining, too--it's like being with a great tour guide, bringing it all to life for you.

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    It is a wonderful book about how New York became New York
  

*by C***R on Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2015*

Nobody knows about how New York  became a gridded city. Gerard Koeppel gives us a vivid description of how it probably happened. More than that he makes a powerful argument for an alternate city plan than the grid. It is a wonderful book about how New York became New York.

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