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The sociable city : an American intellectual tradition /

When celebrated landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted despaired in 1870 that the "restraining and confining conditions" of the city compelled its inhabitants to "look closely upon others without sympathy," he was expressing what many in the United States had already been sayi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rowan, Jamin Creed (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2017.
Edición:1st edition.
Colección:Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Finding Fellow-Feeling in the City
  • Chapter 1. The Settlement Movement's Push for Public Sympathy
  • Chapter 2. New Deal Urbanism and the Contraction of Sympathy
  • Chapter 3. Literary Urbanists and the Interwar Development of Urban Sociability
  • Chapter 4. The Ecology of Sociability in the Postwar City
  • Chapter 5. Jane Jacobs and the Consolidation of Urban Sociability
  • Conclusion. The Future of Urban Sociability
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.