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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

Genre/Form

Pictorial Work
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
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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