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The making of urban America : a history of city planning in the United States
- Title
- The making of urban America : a history of city planning in the United States / by John W. Reps.
- Author
- Reps, John William.
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1965.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | AA9105 R294 | Off-site | |
| Text | Use in library | AA9105 R294 | Off-site | |
| Text | Request in advance | HT167 .R45 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv, 574 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 23 x 28 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Illustrated works.
- Pictorial works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-562) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0691006180
- 9780691006185
- LCCN
- 63023414
- OCLC
- ocm01130801
- 1130801
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries