The Organic City : Urban Definition and Neighborhood Organization 1880-1920 /

During the late nineteenth century rapid social and economic changes negated the prevailing conception of the city as a uniform whole. Confronted with this disparity between the old urban definition and the new city of the late nineteenth century, social thinkers searched for a new concept that woul...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mooney-Melvin, Patricia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Phillips, Wilbur C., > 1880-
Neighborhoods.
Community organization.
Community development, Urban.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Developpement communautaire urbain > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Organisation communautaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Neighborhoods > United States.
Community development, Urban > United States > History > 20th century.
Community organization > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:During the late nineteenth century rapid social and economic changes negated the prevailing conception of the city as a uniform whole. Confronted with this disparity between the old urban definition and the new city of the late nineteenth century, social thinkers searched for a new concept that would correspond more closely to the divided urban community around them. Borrowing an analogy from natural history, these thinkers conceived of the city as an organism composed of interdependent neighborhoods and sought to translate this concept into ways of dealing with the dislocations and problems i.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9780813163918

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