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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warner, Sam Bass, 1928-2023.

Contributor:

Whittemore, Andrew H., 1980-

Series:

Urban and industrial environments.

Urban and industrial environments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--United States--History.

Cities and towns.

City and town life--United States--History.

City and town life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.

Language Note:

English

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. Planning for the future of cities, they remind us, requires an understanding of the forces that shaped the city's past.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-30092-3

1-280-49913-3

9786613594365

0-262-30167-9

OCLC:

778563932

Publisher Number:

9786613594365