The Resilient City: The Economic Transformation of NYC in the 20th Century
Kenneth T. Jackson
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In 1929, on the eve of the Great Depression, New York was the largest city in the world, with the busiest harbor and most productive factories anywhere.
A half century later, Gotham was on the ropes, with rising crime, a declining population and a deteriorating economy. How did the city fall so far and so fast? And what accounts for its remarkable turnaround to become a glittering metropolis since 1980?
Brief Biography
Kenneth T. Jackson is Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for the Study of American History and the Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences at Columbia University. He is the author of Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, Cities in American History and editor in chief of the second edition of the Encyclopedia of New York City.
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