Sam Bass Warner

The urban wilderness: a history of the American city

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TAKING UP THE LAND Tradition as determinant New England folk planning the weight of English custom resistance to change -- Saving yesterday's property management of land zoning city planning and interstate highways -- BUILDING A NATION OF CITIES The engine of private enterprise New York 1820-1870 commerce canals and sweatshops -- The segregated city Chicago 1870-1920 factories railroads and skyscrapers -- The new freedom Los Angeles 1920- beaucracy racism and automobiles -- THE PAST IN THE PRESENT The inheritance of the neighborhoods processing migrants by class race and religion; four-part cultures -- Coping with the urban environment public crises and private benefit the response of charity reform and science -- The neglect of everyday life pouring money into old institutions; housing and health care -- Choice and community summary.

Conditie

Tweedehands - Goed

Taal

Engels

Artikeltype

Boek - Paperback

Publicatiejaar

1995

Uitgever

University of California Press Berkeley, Calif.

Druk

1

Aantal pagina’s

303

EAN

9780520202245

Serie

Classics in urban history 5

xxxiii 303 pages illustrations maps ; 24 cm. Sam Bass Warner Jr. ; foreword by Charles Tilly. Originally published New York Harper & Row 1972. Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-290) and index. United States