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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 W. (John William)
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1965.

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Description
xv, 574 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 23 x 28 cm
Subject
  • Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
  • World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
  • World's Columbian Exposition
  • City planning > United States
  • City planning > United States > Pictorial works
  • City planning
  • City Planning
  • urban planning
  • City planning
  • Geschichte
  • Verstädterung
  • City planning > United States > History
  • United States
  • USA
  • USA
Genre/Form
  • Pictorial Work
  • illustrated books.
  • Illustrated works
  • Pictorial works
  • Illustrated works.
  • Ouvrages illustrés.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 545-562.
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
  • x110099469
OCLC
  • ocm01130801
  • 1130801
  • SCSB-168189
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library