The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011

Edited by Hilary Ballon

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January, 2012
Cloth, 224 pages, 200 illus; gatefold
ISBN: 978-0-231-15990-6
$40.00 / £27.50

Web Features:

• Read a review from the New York Times.
• Hillary Balon explains the New York City Grid.
• A visual history of the New York City grid.
• Read an article on the exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York.
• Read an article on the 200th anniversary of the New York City grid.
• Try Extending the Manhattan Street Grid to Everywhere on Earth.

Related Subjects

• American History
• American Studies
• New York City

About the Author

Hilary Ballon is deputy vice chancellor of New York University Abu Dhabi, part of the leadership team developing the school's new, full-scale campus and establishing its identity as a global university. Based in New York, she teaches courses on urbanism and architecture at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Her books include New York's Pennsylvania Stations; Colbert's Revenge, which won the Prix d'Académie from the Académie Française; The Paris of Henri IV: Architecture and Urbanism, which won the Alice Davis Hitchcock Prize for the Most Distinguished Work in Architectural History; and Robert Moses and the Modern City, for which she served as curator of a critically acclaimed, three-part exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York.

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