Columbia University and Morningside Heights

Reference & Research Book News, August, 2008

Columbia University and Morningside Heights.

Susi, Michael V.

Arcadia Publishing

2007

127 pages

$19.99

Paperback

Postcard history series

LD1248

Along with a bountiful number of portraits of men sporting truly amazing mustaches, this collection of period effluvia includes significant commentary in visual form on the growth of a premier urban university and its influence upon the surrounding area. Photos show how the campus, designed by leading urban planners, worked with the sites of neighbors such as the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, St. Luke's Hospital, Barnard College, Teachers College and Union Theological Seminary. The period photos capture the eclectic collection of architecture that developed around the university, the practices of its students, and the achievements of its faculty. Some of the most interesting shots show how Morningside Heights developed from a pastoral playground to a busting neighborhood in the shadow of its large and famous university.

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