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| Preface | |
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| Urban America in the Colonial age, 1500-1776 | |
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| Urban Beginnings | |
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| Problems of Growth | |
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| The Social Mosaic | |
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| Cities in the American Revolution | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| Urban Expansion in the New Nation, 1776-1860 | |
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| Cities in the New Republic | |
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| Revolution in Transportation and the Economy | |
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| Boosterism | |
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| Beginning of Urban Industrialism | |
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| Societal Effects of Economic Change | |
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| Problems of Growth | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| Life in the Walking City, 1820-1865 | |
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| The Walking City | |
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| Social Complexity and Contested Terrain | |
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| Immigrants | |
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| Rootless Men and Women | |
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| Urban Politics | |
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| Cities and the Civil War | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| Industrialization and the Changing Space of the City, 1865-1920 | |
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| The Quickening pace of Industrialization | |
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| The Growth of Mass transit | |
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| The Geography of the Streetcar City | |
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| The Geography of Leisure: Parks and Commercial Amusements | |
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| Population Mobility | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| Newcomers and the Urban Core, 1865-1920 | |
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| Waves of Immigration | |
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| Rural Americans Move to the City | |
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| Housing and Health | |
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| Coping With inner-City Life | |
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| Patterns of Social Mobility | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bosses and reformers in City Politics, 1870-1920 | |
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| Origins of the Machine | |
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| Structure and Functions of the Machine | |
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| Some Notable Cases | |
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| City Governance and Municipal Reform | |
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| Goals and Tactics of Municipal Reform | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Reforming the Social and Physical Environment, 1870-1920 | |
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| Impulses of Social Reform | |
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| Remedies of Social Reform | |
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| Planning and Engineering the City | |
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| Reform Becomes Progressivism | |
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| The rise of Urban Liberalism | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| Cities in an Age of Metropolitanism: The 1920s and 1930s | |
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| New Urban Growth | |
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| Suburbanization and Metropolitanism | |
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| Cities and Consumer Culture | |
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| Cities as a Cultural Battleground | |
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| Urban Politics in the 1920s | |
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| The Great depression | |
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| Political and social Life in the 1930s | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Emerging "Urban Crisis," 1941-1975 | |
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| The Impact of World War II on Cities | |
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| Postwar Suburban Growth | |
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| Racial Transition in Urban Neighborhoods | |
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| Urban Renewal and its Consequences | |
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| Currents of Protest | |
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| Changes in Urban Politics | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| New Hope and New Concerns in the American City | |
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| Deindustrialization and Financial Crisis | |
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| The Decline of Federal Urban Policy | |
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| Dual Cities: Rich and Poor in a Changing Economy | |
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| Privatization, Gambling, and Tourism | |
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| The federal Government and the Cities in the 1990s and 2000s | |
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| Revitalization and Gentrification | |
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| Immigration and Diversity | |
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| Changing Suburbs | |
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| The Disasters in New York and New Orleans | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |