© Columbia University Press
Morningside Heights: A History of Its Architecture and Development
Paper, 544 pages, 155 photos, 5 maps
ISBN: 978-0-231-07851-1
$39.50
/ £27.50
September, 1998
Cloth, 544 pages, 155 photos, 5 maps
ISBN: 978-0-231-07850-4
$100.00
/ £69.00
"Every town, hamlet, and neighborhood deserves an historical portrait by Andrew Dolkart. His history of Morningside Heights is a magnificent work of scholarship that grows out of a true love of urbanism and a profound respect for the contribution of architects and developers, whether high-minded or not-so, to the vitality of place." — Robert A. M. Stern
"Combines recondite research with bare-knuckle history, interweaving the nuts and bolts of neighborhood-building with a messy human drama of rivalry, greed, marketing, bigotry and idealism." — The New York Times
"Thorough analysis of this architecturally rich neighborhood." — New York Observer
"While Dolkart focuses on aesthetics, his analysis of taste and design is informed by a penetrating knowledge of Manhattan’s social history. The resulting book, gracefully written and generously illustrated, will appeal to historians, residents, and anyone whose search for scarce parking on the Heights has taken them past buildings which astonish and delight. . . . Dolkart adeptly explains the social implications behind . . . artistic decisions. . . . the work is a remarkable social portrait." — New York History