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American urban form : a representative history /
An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis. 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, buildin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Urban and industrial environments.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis. 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 reflect changing patterns of the social, political, and economic processes that shape the city. In this book, Sam Bass Warner and Andrew Whittemore map more than three hundred years of the American city through the evolution of urban form. They do this by offering an illustrated history of "the City"--A hypothetical city (constructed from the histories of Boston, Philadelphia, and New York) that exemplifies the American city's transformation from village to regional metropolis. In an engaging text accompanied by Whittemore's detailed, meticulous drawings, they chart the City's changes. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (183 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780262301671 0262301679 |