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AIA Guide to New York City | 
 enlarge | Authors: Norval White, Elliot Willensky
Category: Book
Buy New: $234.37
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 1503037
Format: Bargain Price
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 4th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1088
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 5 x 2
ASIN: B000C20PCE
Publication Date: May 31, 2000
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Product Description
Vast changes in the architectural fabric of Manhattan and its neighboring boroughs during the last ten years have necessitated a thorough reworking of this classic guidebook. The third edition is updated and generously illustrated. 4 3/4" by 10".
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 Useful and Interesting--Especially for New Yorkers December 6, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book may seem like nothing more than a tourist guide to New York City, but that assumption could not be further from the truth. This book is insightful, interesting and very eye opening, even to myself who has lived in NYC for some time. It helped me appreciate this city as a living work of art, a place where every style of architecture comes together on a truly unique canvas.
A real selling point are the walks outside of Manhattan that this book offers. This shows off a side of New York hardly ever covered by other book or looked into by tourists, and it is very interesting.
The pictures are few and far between, and not large enough to give you an in depth look at the buildings described, but the walks layed out in the book are well organized, easy to follow and very interesting.
Buy this book and go explore one of the greatest city in the world!
Fascinating guide January 18, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This guide really opens up a perspective of Manhattan with tons of information on architecture and building styles. It gets you thinking about the structures that you see every day. I am learning a lot from it.
Exhaustive Guide to the Greatest City in the World February 17, 2005
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is the benchmark for books of this type. It doesn't just focus on Manhattan, it does justice to the wonderful architecture in the other buroughs. It is just amazing how many great buildings this city has, the book just goes on and on. The quality of the book is first rate and the pictures, though B&W, are crisp, though understandably small. The latest update was 2000, so the World Trade Center is mentioned as extant, and some of the newer buildings in N.Y., like Time Warner and Bloomberg are not mentioned, but that is for the next update I suppose, New York is ever changing.
The City in your hand January 19, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
What can we say about New York that hasn't been said? It's an awesome place, and its architecture is truly astonishing in scope, diversity and importance. This book is a selective catalogue of the City's most beloved historic buildings, with a sprinkling of important modern structures as well. I say "historic" because this guide just happens to be that way. There are some conspicuous gaps in the presentation of important modern buildings, which probably reflects the artistic preferences of the editors, but all of the most well-known modern architects are appropriately represented.
This is a book for architectural historians, curious cultural tourists and general readers. The entries are many, so the words included with each are few. Readers are not treated to long narrative histories of imporant landmarks but, rather, to a book that is exceptionally wide and quite shallow. This is what one generally expects from AIA-sponsored guides, so there should be no surprises. There are tiny monochrome photographs with almost every entry, but their small size limits the reader's ability to get a good mental image of the building. Buy this book to take New York's lovely historical architecture with you wherever you go. And by all means, go to see it! No city on earth even comes close.
Latest edition is 2000, so World Trade Center towers are included.
Keep it close March 14, 2004
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have been a New Yorker all my life and thought I'd known it all. There were buildings/structures that I knew to be older than most and probably landmarks, but never got around to checking them out. Then I picked up the AIA Guide to New York City sometime in 2001. Ever since, I have kept it with me at all times: in my back pocket, my briefcase, my jacket... Sometimes I go to some of these places in advance, with the intent of looking at them after I'd read about them. Other times, when on my way to or from work or lunch, I will see a building, stop, and look to read about what it is. My hunches aren't always correct, of course: not all the buildings I think are landmarks are. But I always keep this Guide on hand to find out.
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