STERN, ROBERT, T. MELLINS, D. FISHMAN. New York 1960: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial. 1,374 pp. with over 1,000 b&w illustrations. Large 4to, cloth. New York, Monacelli, 1995.
Part of an ongoing series of the history of New York's architecture and urbanism (the first two volumes were "New York 1900" and "New York 1930") offering an in-depth study of the city from the 1940s through the early 1970s. Organized geographically, the survey provides an encyclopedic treatment of the city's postwar architecture, and relates a coherent history of each of New York's neighborhoods. Other chapters discuss the interiors of the period, the postwar arts revitalization, and the early days of the historic preservation movement.