From improvement to city planning : spatial management in Cincinnati from the early republic through the Civil War decade / Henry C. Binford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Binford, Henry C., author.

Series:

Urban life, landscape, and policy.

Urban Life, Landscape and Policy Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Ohio--Cincinnati--History--19th century.

City planning.

Land use--Ohio--Cincinnati--History--19th century.

Land use.

Urban renewal--Ohio--Cincinnati--History--19th century.

Urban renewal.

Cincinnati (Ohio)--Economic conditions--19th century.

Cincinnati (Ohio).

Cincinnati (Ohio)--Social conditions--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Offers a new perspective on early U.S. urban development, showing how city planning movements of the post-Civil War period were not just innovations in response to industrial urbanism but were also profoundly shaped by ideas and experiences of city living in the early republic"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I. Irregular Urbanism: Cincinnati as a Late Commercial City

1. Foundation: The Spatial Legacy of the First Cincinnati, 1786-1820

2. Improvement: Commerce, Religion, and the Location of Urban Value, 1820-1840

3. An Eastern Queen in a Western Realm: Spatial Management in Cincinnati, 1820-1840

Part II. Engineered Urbanism: Improvement Becomes Planning

4. Environmentalism: The Location of Urban Danger, 1835-1860

5. Uncertainty: Cincinnati Wrestles with Industrial Urbanism, 1835-1860

6. Toward Planning: Experiments in Spatial Management, 1849-1862

7. Civil War and Cincinnati Reinvention: The Radical Moment at the Local Level

8. Planned and Unplanned Cincinnati: The Conflicted Legacy of Improvement

Epilogue

Appendix: Influential Actors in Cincinnati

Notes

Bibliography of Primary Sources

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781439920862

1439920869

OCLC:

1245249508