Book 2013
The Measure Of Manhattan The Tumultuous Career And Surprising Legacy Of John Randel Jr Cartographer Surveyor Inventor
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- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Published
- 2013
- Influence
- Surveyors
- Cartographers
- Surveying
- City planning
- History
- Biography
- Inventors
A portrait of the nineteenth-century architect of Manhattan's city grid shares insights into his personality while surveying the innovations that enabled the developing city of Manhattan to overcome natural obstacles to infrastructure.