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The making of urban America : a history of city planning in the United States /
This comprehensive survey of urban growth in America has become a standard work in the field. From the early colonial period to the First World War, John Reps explores to what extent city planning has been rooted in the nation's tradition, showing the extent of European influence on early commu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1965.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- European planning on the eve of American colonization
- The Spanish towns of Colonial America
- The towns of New France
- Town planning in the Tidewater Colonies
- New towns in a New England
- New Amsterdam, Philadelphia, and towns of the Middle Colonies
- Colonial towns of Carolina and Georgia
- Pioneer cities of the Ohio Valley
- Planning the national capital
- Boulevard Baroque and diagonal designs
- Gridiron cities and checkerboard plans
- Cemeteries, parks, and suburbs: picturesque planning in the romantic style
- Cities for sale: land speculation in American planning
- Towns by the tracks
- The towns the companies built
- Cities of Zion: the planning of utopian and religious communities
- Minor towns and mutant plans
- Chicago Fair and capital city: the rebirth of American urban planning.