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Winner of the Spiro Kostof Award of the Society of Architectural HistoriansOffering a new vision of the creation of the American city, Max Page looks at the infamously transitory nature of New York City and argues that the early twentieth-century city was dominated by the politics of destruction and rebuilding that became the hallmark of modern urbanism.Page, Max is the author of 'Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940' with ISBN 9780226644691 and ISBN 0226644693.
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