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AIA guide to New York City / American Institute of Architects guide to New York City At head of title: American Institute of Architects, New York Chapter [edited by] Norval White, Elliot Willensky with Fran Leadon. - 5th ed. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - xxii, 1055 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Includes indexes.

Manhattan -- Brooklyn -- Queens -- The Bronx -- Staten Island -- The other islands.

There are two reasons the guide has entered the pantheon of New York books. One is its encyclopedic nature, and the other is its inimitable style-'smart, vivid, funny and opinionated' as the architectural historian Christopher Gray once summed it up in pithy W & W fashion."-The New York Times

ISBN: 9780195383850 (cloth : alk. paper) 0195383850 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780195383867 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0195383869 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2010001289

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Architecture--New York (State)--New York--Guidebooks.
Primera Jornada de Catalogación.
Arquitectura$z Nueva York (Estados Unidos)--Guías.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New York (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Guidebooks.
New York (N.Y.)--Guidebooks.
Nueva York (Estados Unidos)--Descripciones y viajes.
Nueva York (Estados Unidos)--Descripción--Guías.
Nueva York (Estados Unidos)--Guías.

LC Class. No.: NA 735 / A288 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 720.9747