| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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Book Review

The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea. By Thomas Bender. (New York: New Press, 2002. xvi, 287 pp. $30.00, ISBN 1-56584-736-9.)

For the past fifteen years, Thomas Bender has focused his considerable energies on "an ongoing search for New York, for the metropolitan culture that is centered in Manhattan" (p. xii). His has not been an easy task, in part because "culture" is a discursive term and in part because Gotham is so complex. Bender argues that it is in the nature of the Hudson River metropolis to be unfinished and continually in the making, unlike more established places such as Paris or Budapest or Vienna, or even newer cities such as Buenos Aires or São Paulo. New York, he argues, is sui generis.

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