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American urban form [electronic resource] : a representative history / Sam Bass Warner and Andrew H. Whittemore ; drawings by Andrew H. Whittemore.

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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, buildin...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Warner, Sam Bass, 1928-2023
Other Authors: Whittemore, Andrew H., 1980-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.
Series:Urban and industrial environments.
Subjects:
Cities and towns > United States > History.
City and town life > United States > History.
Cities and towns.
City and town life.
United States.
History.
Table of 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.

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