{"id":14407,"date":"2025-10-24T00:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/14407\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T00:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:27:17","slug":"the-unfinished-metropolis-reinventing-the-great-american-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/14407\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Unfinished Metropolis&#8217;: Reinventing the Great American Downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">  This article is adapted from Benjamin Schneider\u2019s new book,   <a href=\"https:\/\/islandpress.org\/books\/unfinished-metropolis#desc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution<\/a>   (Island Press, Oct. 21). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">At the grand opening of New York City\u2019s Woolworth Building in 1913, then the world\u2019s tallest structure at 792 feet in height, a Brooklyn minister christened the neo-Gothic tower \u201cthe cathedral of commerce.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This article is adapted from Benjamin Schneider\u2019s new book, The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution (Island Press,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5462,288,3339,5869,10704,609,10702,9,11,10,2344,10706,2990,10703,10705,5561],"class_list":["post-14407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-architecture","tag-business","tag-cities","tag-citylab","tag-dan-burnham","tag-government","tag-lincoln-center-for-the-performing-arts","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-office-space","tag-perspective","tag-small-business","tag-urban-renewal","tag-visions-federal-credit-union","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}