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Author Warner, Sam Bass, 1928-

Title American urban form : a representative history / Sam Bass Warner and Andrew H. Whittemore ; drawings by Andrew H. Whittemore
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (183 pages) : illustrations
Series Urban and industrial environments
Urban and industrial environments.
Contents 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
Summary An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis. 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 reflect changing patterns of the social, political, and economic processes that shape the city. In this book, Sam Bass Warner and Andrew Whittemore map more than three hundred years of the American city through the evolution of urban form. They do this by offering an illustrated history of "the City"--A hypothetical city (constructed from the histories of Boston, Philadelphia, and New York) that exemplifies the American city's transformation from village to regional metropolis. In an engaging text accompanied by Whittemore's detailed, meticulous drawings, they chart the City's changes
Analysis ARCHITECTURE/Urban Design
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed August 18, 2023)
Subject Cities and towns -- United States -- History
City and town life -- United States -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
Cities and towns
City and town life
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Whittemore, Andrew H., 1980-
ISBN 9780262301671
0262301679