Download or read book The Mythic City written by Donald Albrecht and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late 1920s and early 1930s, architectural photographer Samuel H. Gottscho created a portrait of New York as a modern metropolis. This book presents more than 170 images of the city and provides a window to New York architecture and design of that era.