American Urban Form A Representative History

Name: American Urban Form A Representative History
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ISBN: 9780262525329

ISBN-10: 0262525321

ISBN-13: 9780262525329

Edition: 2012

Authors: Andrew H. Whittemore, Sam Bass Warner, Andrew Whittemore

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American urban form -- the spaces, places, and boundaries that define city life --has been evolving since the first settlements of colonial days. The changing patterns of houses,buildings, streets, parks, pipes and wires, wharves, railroads, highways, and airports reflectchanging patterns of the social, political, and economic processes that shape the city. In thisbook, Sam Bass Warner and Andrew Whittemore map more than three hundred years of the American citythrough the evolution of urban form. They do this by offering an illustrated history of "theCity" -- a hypothetical city (constructed from the histories of Boston, Philadelphia, and NewYork) that exemplifies the American city's…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/16/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.56" wide x 10.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 1.100
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


Introduction



The City's Seventeenth-Century Beginnings



The City in the Mid-Eighteenth Century



The Merchant Republic, 1820



The City Overwhelmed, 1860



The City Restructured, 1895



Toward a New Economy and a Novel Urban Form, 1925



The Federally Supported City, 1950



The Polycentric City, 1975



The Global City, 2000


Notes


Suggested Reading


Index


Series List