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Another city : urban life and urban spaces in the new American republic / Dell Upton.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating HT123 .U68 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Upton, Dell.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns--United States--History--19th century.
- Cities and towns.
- City planning--United States--History--19th century.
- City planning.
- History.
- United States--History--19th century.
- United States.
- City planning--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century.
- Buildings--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Buildings.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- x, 395 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. The lived city
- Cities of perpetual ruin and repair
- The relics of civilized life
- The smell of danger
- Noise and gabble
- Seeing and believing
- Part II. Metropolitan improvements
- The grid and the republican spatial imagination
- Gridding consumption
- Permutations of the pigeonhole : architecture as memory
- Gridding the graveyard
- Gridded utopias
- Part III. Public spaces and private citizens
- On the waterfront
- In public walks
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-386) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780300124880
- 0300124880
- OCLC:
- 191206784
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