Contents |
Introduction : conceiving the new metropolis : expertise, public policy, and the problem of civic culture in New York City -- "The public be pleased" : railroad planning, engineering culture, and the promise of quasi-scientific voluntarism -- Beyond voluntarism : the Interstate Commerce Commission, the railroads, and freight planning for New York harbor -- Buccaneer bureaucrats, physical interdependence, and free riders : building the underground city -- Taxing, spending, and borrowing : expanding public claims on private wealth -- City planning versus the law : zoning the metropolis -- "They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with brushes of comets' hair" : regional planning and the metropolitan dilemma -- Conclusion : "An almost mystical unity" : interdependence and the public interest in the modern metropolis. |