Two centuries of American planning / edited by Daniel Schaffer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schaffer, Daniel, 1950-

Series:

Studies in history, planning, and the environment

Studies in history, planning, and the environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--United States--History.

City planning.

Regional planning.

History.

United States.

Regional planning--United States--History.

Physical Description:

329 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Mansell, [1988]

Contents:

Introduction / Daniel Schaffer

The greatest grid: the New York Plan of 1811 / Edward K. Spann

The early nineteenth-century suburg: creating a suburban ethos in Somerville and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1820-1860 / Henry C. Binford

The late nineteenth-century suburb: creating a suburban ethos for Chicago's North Shore, 1855-1900 / Michael H. Ebner

Frederick Law Olmsted, the placemaker / Dana F. White

The Seattle park system and the ideal of the city beautiful / William H. Wilson

Comprehensive planning before the comprehensive plan: a new look at the nineteenth-century American city / David C. Hammack

Regional planning for the great American metropolis: New York between the world wars / David A. Johnson

The New Deal and American planning: the 1930s / John Hancock

The paradox of post-war urban planning: downtown revitalization versus decent housing for all / John F. Bauman

The post-war American suburb: a new form, a new city / Robert Fishman

Problems of governance and the professions of planners: the planning profession in the 1980's / Howell S. Baum

The future of the metropolitan region / David R. Goldfield.

Notes:

"An Alexandrine Press book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0720118034

OCLC:

15196516