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Mike Wallace, “Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898-1919” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Adrienne Brown, "The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race" (John Hopkins UP, 2017)
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Kate Baker, “Captured Landscape: Architecture and the Enclosed Garden” (Routledge, 2018)
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Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis. "Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham" (Empire States Editions, 2018)
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