Private City Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth

Name: Private City Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth
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ISBN: 9780812212433

ISBN-10: 0812212436

ISBN-13: 9780812212433

Edition: 2nd 1987 (Revised)

Authors: Sam Bass Warner

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Book details

List price: $29.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 6/1/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Sam Bass Warner, noted urban historian and Visiting Professor of Urban History at MIT, is theauthor of The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City and other books.



Acknowledgments


Intorduction to the Second Edition



The Eighteenth-Century Town



The Environment of Private Opportunity



War and the Limits of the Tradition



The Big City 1830-1860



Spatial Patterns of Rapid Growth



Industrialization



The Specialization of Leadership



Municipal Institutions



Riots and the Restoration of Public Order



The Industrial Metropolis



The Structure of the Metropolis



Some Metropolitan Districts



The Industrial Metropolis as an Inheritance Bibliography of Recent Philadelphia Books


Notes to Tables in Text