The sociable city : an American intellectual tradition /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rowan, Jamin Creed (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2017.
Edition:1st edition.
Series:Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
Subjects:
1800-1999
City planning > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
City planning > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Urban ecology (Sociology) > United States > History > 19th century.
Urban ecology (Sociology) > United States > History > 20th century.
City and town life > United States > Psychological aspects > History > 19th century.
City and town life > United States > Psychological aspects > History > 20th century.
Public spaces > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Public spaces > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Écologie urbaine > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Écologie urbaine > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Vie urbaine > États-Unis > Aspect psychologique > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Vie urbaine > États-Unis > Aspect psychologique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Espaces publics > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Espaces publics > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Public spaces > Social aspects.
City and town life > Psychological aspects.
City planning > Social aspects.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Stadt
Verstädterung
Interaktion
United States.
USA.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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