The Organic City : Urban Definition and Neighborhood Organization 1880--1920 / Patricia Mooney Melvin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mooney-Melvin, Patricia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neighborhoods--United States.

Neighborhoods.

Community development, Urban--United States--History--20th century.

Community development, Urban.

Community organization--United States--History--20th century.

Community organization.

Phillips, Wilbur C., b. 1880.

Phillips, Wilbur C.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the late nineteenth century rapid social and economic changes negated the prevailing conception of the city as a uniform whole. Confronted with this disparity between the old urban definition and the new city of the late nineteenth century, social thinkers searched for a new concept that would correspond more closely to the divided urban community around them. Borrowing an analogy from natural history, these thinkers conceived of the city as an organism composed of interdependent neighborhoods and sought to translate this concept into ways of dealing with the dislocations and problems i

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgment; Introduction; 1 Neighborhood in the Organic City; 2 Infant Health and Neighborhood Organization; 3 The Social Unit Theory of Organization; 4 The Social Unit Comes to Cincinnati; 5 An Experiment in Neighborhood Health Care; 6 Politics and the Social Unit, 1919-1920; 7 Metropolitan Community to Fragmented Metropolis, 1920-1940; Notes; Bibliographic Essay; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [208]-222.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813183442

0813183448

9780813163918

0813163919

OCLC:

647398067