How Women Saved the City

Name: How Women Saved the City
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ISBN: 9780816635320

ISBN-10: 0816635323

ISBN-13: 9780816635320

Edition: 2001

Authors: Daphne Spain

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Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 12/11/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 5.85" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Daphne Spain is James M. Page Professor and Chair, Department of Urban & Environmental Planning in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. She is author of How Women Saved the City.



Preface


Acknowledgments



Voluntary Vernacular



Why Cities Needed Saving



Paths to Salvation



Sacred and Secular Organizational Ideologies



Voluntary Associations with an Urban Presence



Redemptive Places



New York City Headquarters, Smaller City Branches



Boston, the Cradle of Redemptive Places



Men Build Chicago's Skyline, Women Redeem the City



How Women Saved the City



Literature Review



Organizational Charters



Addresses of Redemptive Places for Boston, New York City, and Chicago


Notes


References


Index