American Urban Form: A Representative History - Rilegato

Warner, Sam Bass; Whittemore, Andrew H.

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ISBN 10: 0262017210 ISBN 13: 9780262017213

Casa editrice: Mit Pr, 2012

Riassunto

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 reflectchanging patterns of the social, political, and economic processes that shape the city. In thisbook, Sam Bass Warner and Andrew Whittemore map more than three hundred years of the American citythrough the evolution of urban form. They do this by offering an illustrated history of "theCity" -- a hypothetical city (constructed from the histories of Boston, Philadelphia, and NewYork) that exemplifies the American city's transformation from village to regionalmetropolis.

In an engaging text accompanied by Whittemore's detailed, meticulousdrawings, they chart the City's changes. Planning for the future of cities, they remind us, requiresan understanding of the forces that shaped the city's past.

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L'autore:

Sam Bass Warner, noted urban historian and Visiting Professor of Urban History at MIT, is the author of Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900; The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth; The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City; To Dwell Is to Garden: A History of Boston's Community Gardens; and other books. Andrew H. Whittemore is Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Texas Arlington.

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Book by Warner Sam Bass Whittemore Andrew

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• Editore: Mit Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0262017210
• ISBN 13: 9780262017213
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 183