title: The Citys End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New Yorks Destruction
author:  Max Page 
description: This richly detailed book celebrates the enduring cultural significance of New York with an account of our unending desire to envision its demise. Since the nineteenth century, when the city established itself as a symbol not only of power and wealth but of racial diversity and class stratification, New Yorkbeset by immigrants, crime, and crises real and imaginedhas been the locus of Americas apocalyptic anxieties. Page, a professor of architecture and history, charts the evolution of popular fears in films, drawings, literature, video games, and amusement-park rides. His argument that each era has found it useful to destroy New York in its own particular way draws on theorists like Spengler and Sontag, but they are less illuminating than the gleeful illustrations, which attest to the notion that no place looks better destroyed than New York. <br />Copyright 2008<ahref="http: www.amazon.com="" gp="" product="" b00005n7t5"=""><i> Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker</i>
  						    	
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  The Secrets Of The Great City
  
  
  [CHAPTER I. THE CITY OF NEW
  YORK.](The%20Secrets%20Of%20The%20Great%20City_split_001.html#filepos15634)
  
  [CHAPTER II. THE STREETS OF NEW
  
  
  YORK.
  
  [CHAPTER III. THE CITY
  GOVERNMENT.](The%20Secrets%20Of%20The%20Great%20City_split_001.html#filepos52722)
  
  [CHAPTER IV. THE METROPOLITAN
  
  
  POLICE.
  
  [CHAPTER V.
  SOCIETY.](The%20Secrets%20Of%20The%20Great%20City_split_001.html#filepos98664)
  
  [CHAPTER VI. THE
  TOMBS.](The%20Secrets%20Of%20The%20Great%20City_split_001.html#filepos140350)
  
  [CHAPTER VII. REFORMATORY
  
  
  ESTABLISHMENTS.
  
  [CHAPTER VIII. LINES OF
  TRAVEL.](The%20Secrets%20Of%20The%20Great%20City_split_002.html#filepos177249)
  
  [CHAPTER IX. STREET
  MUSICIANS.](The%20Secrets%20Of%20The%20Great%20City_split_002.html#filepos190382)
  
  [CHAPTER X. THE
  PRESS.](The%20Secrets%20Of%20The%20Great%20City_split_002.html#filepos211608)
  
  [CHAPTER XI. WALL
  STREET.](The%20Secrets%20Of%20The%20Great%20City_split_002.html