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Constructing the patriarchal city : gender and the built environments of London, Dublin, Toronto, and Chicago, 1870s into the 1940s /

"In the Anglo-Atlantic world of the late nineteenth century, groups of urban residents struggled to reconstruct their cities in the wake of industrialization and to create the modern city. New professional men wanted an orderly city that functioned for economic development. Women's vision...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Flanagan, Maureen A., 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2018]
Colección:Urban life, landscape, and policy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : "Our cities are patriarchy written in stone, brick, glass, and concrete"
  • 1. Liberty, property, and gender in the corporate city
  • 2. Housing, boundaries, and gender in the quasi-public city
  • 3. The disorder of unembounded bodies
  • 4. The urban modern
  • 5. London : to cure the diseased organism
  • 6. Dublin : property, gender, and the civic unit
  • 7. Toronto : saving "Toronto the good"
  • 8. Chicago : city of destiny
  • Conclusion : the patriarchal city consolidated.