Nicholas Dagen Bloom: 2 books
The Metropolitan Airport
JFK International and Modern New York
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
John F. Kennedy International Airport is one of New York City's most successful and influential redevelopment projects. Built and defined by outsize personalities—Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, famed urban planner Robert Moses, and Port Authority Executive Director Austin Tobin among them—JFK was...
How States Shaped Postwar America
State Government and Urban Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and ’70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and enduring impact of activist states in five areas:...