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The Rise of Urban America

Author : Constantine McLaughlin Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135679754
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Urban America written by Constantine McLaughlin Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of cities in the United States from the early seventeenth century to the 1960s is the subject of this sophisticated and witty appraisal by a Pulitzer Prize historian. Constance McLaughlin Green traces the forces - economic, political, social - that led to today's urban civilization, beginning with the growth of colonial seaports and local government, the rise of new cities that competed for wealth and power with the older cities, the spread of industrialization, transportation and communications that made complex city life possible. She discussed the influence of city life on art and architecture, the impact of depression and prosperity upon urban centres, and analyses present-day problems - race-relations, the population explosion, automation, the rise of suburbia, and the development of the 'megapolis' that links city with city in one vast urban interstate region. This book was first published in 1966.

The Making of Urban America

Author : John William Reps
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691238243
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Urban America written by John William Reps and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey of urban growth in America has become a standard work in the field. From the early colonial period to the First World War, John Reps explores to what extent city planning has been rooted in the nation's tradition, showing the extent of European influence on early communities. Illustrated by over three hundred reproductions of maps, plans, and panoramic views, this book presents hundreds of American cities and the unique factors affecting their development.

The Rise of Urban America

Author : Constance McLaughlin Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415419314
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Urban America written by Constance McLaughlin Green and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

America's Urban History

Author : Lisa Krissoff Boehm
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000904970
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book America's Urban History written by Lisa Krissoff Boehm and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second edition, America’s Urban History now includes contemporary analysis of race, immigration, and cities under the Trump administration and has been fully updated with new scholarship on early urbanization, mass incarceration and cities, the Great Society, the diversification of the suburbs, and environmental justice. The United States is one of the most heavily urbanized places in the world, and its urban history is essential to understanding the fundamental narrative of American history. This book is an accessible overview of the history of American cities, including Indigenous settlements, colonial America, the American West, the postwar metropolis, and the present-day landscape of suburban sprawl and an urbanized population. It examines the ways in which urbanization is connected to divisions of society along the lines of race, class, and gender, but it also studies how cities have been sources of opportunity, hope, and success for individuals and the nation. Images, maps, tables, and a guide to further reading provide engaging accompaniment to illustrate key concepts and themes. Spanning centuries of America’s urban past, this book’s depth and insight make it an ideal text for students and scholars in urban studies and American history.

Urban America

Author : David R. Goldfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Urban America written by David R. Goldfield and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Urban America, like the first edition, is distinguished by its emphasis on the spatial relationships within and between cities. This emphasis a study of the geographical patterns of residential, commercial, political, and cultural development, allows a balanced, flexible examination of the varied aspects of urban life. It permits a comprehensive look at the social, economic, political, and cultural history of the city. At the same time, this edition minimizes its review of spatial theory; many students and instructors told us the theoretical material tended to encumber rather than enlighten. -- Preface.

The Metropolitan Revolution

Author : Jon C. Teaford
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231510934
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Metropolitan Revolution written by Jon C. Teaford and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-16 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this absorbing history, Jon C. Teaford traces the dramatic evolution of American metropolitan life. At the end of World War II, the cities of the Northeast and the Midwest were bustling, racially and economically integrated areas frequented by suburban and urban dwellers alike. Yet since 1945, these cities have become peripheral to the lives of most Americans. "Edge cities" are now the dominant centers of production and consumption in post-suburban America. Characterized by sprawling freeways, corporate parks, and homogeneous malls and shopping centers, edge cities have transformed the urban landscape of the United States. Teaford surveys metropolitan areas from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt and the way in which postwar social, racial, and cultural shifts contributed to the decline of the central city as a hub of work, shopping, transportation, and entertainment. He analyzes the effects of urban flight in the 1950s and 1960s, the subsequent growth of the suburbs, and the impact of financial crises and racial tensions. He then brings the discussion into the present by showing how the recent wave of immigration from Latin America and Asia has further altered metropolitan life and complicated the black-white divide. Engaging in original research and interpretation, Teaford tells the story of this fascinating metamorphosis.

Saving America's Cities

Author : Lizabeth Cohen
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374721602
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Saving America's Cities written by Lizabeth Cohen and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bancroft Prize In twenty-first-century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable housing. Cities have limited tools to address these problems, and many must rely on the private market to support the public good. It wasn’t always this way. For almost three decades after World War II, even as national policies promoted suburban sprawl, the federal government underwrote renewal efforts for cities that had suffered during the Great Depression and the war and were now bleeding residents into the suburbs. In Saving America’s Cities, the prizewinning historian Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private interests that would culminate in the neoliberal rush to privatize efforts to solve entrenched social problems. A Yale-trained lawyer, rival of Robert Moses, and sometime critic of Jane Jacobs, Logue saw renewing cities as an extension of the liberal New Deal. He worked to revive a declining New Haven, became the architect of the “New Boston” of the 1960s, and, later, led New York State’s Urban Development Corporation, which built entire new towns, including Roosevelt Island in New York City. Logue’s era of urban renewal has a complicated legacy: Neighborhoods were demolished and residents dislocated, but there were also genuine successes and progressive goals. Saving America’s Cities is a dramatic story of heartbreak and destruction but also of human idealism and resourcefulness, opening up possibilities for our own time.

How the Other Half Lives

Author : Jacob Riis
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 145850042X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (585 download)

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Download or read book How the Other Half Lives written by Jacob Riis and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Making of Urban America

Author : Raymond A. Mohl
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842026390
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Urban America written by Raymond A. Mohl and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1997 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition is designed to introduce students of urban history to recent interpretive literature in this field. Its goal is to provide a coherent framework for understanding the pattern of American urbanization, while at the same time offering specific examples of the work of historians in the field.

The City Creative

Author : Michael H. Carriere
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022672722X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The City Creative written by Michael H. Carriere and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-04-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : a brief history of the recent past -- The (near) death and life of postwar American cities : the roots of contemporary placemaking -- The roaring '90s -- Into the twenty-first century -- Growing place : toward a counterhistory of contemporary placemaking -- Producing place -- Creating place -- Conclusion : Placemaking is for people.

Encyclopedia of American Urban History

Author : David Goldfield
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761928847
Total Pages : 1057 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Urban History written by David Goldfield and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1057 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by one of the leading scholars of urban studies, this encyclopedia offers an accurate and authoritative historical approach to the dramatic urban growth experienced in the United States during the 20th century.

Instant Cities

Author : Gunther Paul Barth
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195018990
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Instant Cities written by Gunther Paul Barth and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of the Oxford U. Press edition of 1975 with a new introduction (20 p.). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Urban America: Growth, Crisis, and Rebirth

Author : John Mcdonald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317452879
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Urban America: Growth, Crisis, and Rebirth written by John Mcdonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will change the way Americans think about their cities. It provides a comprehensive economic and social history of urban America since 1950, covering the 29 largest urban areas of that period. Specifically, the book covers 17 cities in the Northeast, 6 in the South, and 6 in the West, decade by decade, with extensive data and historical narrative. The author divides his analysis into three periods - urban growth (1950 to 1970), urban crisis (late 1960s to 1990), and urban rebirth (since 1990). He draws on the concepts of the vicious circle and the virtuous circle to offer the first in-depth explanation for the transition from urban crisis to urban rebirth that took place in the early 1990s. "Urban America" is both a message of hope and a call to action for students and professionals in urban studies. It will inspire readers to concentrate on finding ways and means to ensure that the urban rebirth will continue.

Segregation

Author : Carl H. Nightingale
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022637971X
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Segregation written by Carl H. Nightingale and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think of segregation, what often comes to mind is apartheid South Africa, or the American South in the age of Jim Crow—two societies fundamentally premised on the concept of the separation of the races. But as Carl H. Nightingale shows us in this magisterial history, segregation is everywhere, deforming cities and societies worldwide. Starting with segregation’s ancient roots, and what the archaeological evidence reveals about humanity’s long-standing use of urban divisions to reinforce political and economic inequality, Nightingale then moves to the world of European colonialism. It was there, he shows, segregation based on color—and eventually on race—took hold; the British East India Company, for example, split Calcutta into “White Town” and “Black Town.” As we follow Nightingale’s story around the globe, we see that division replicated from Hong Kong to Nairobi, Baltimore to San Francisco, and more. The turn of the twentieth century saw the most aggressive segregation movements yet, as white communities almost everywhere set to rearranging whole cities along racial lines. Nightingale focuses closely on two striking examples: Johannesburg, with its state-sponsored separation, and Chicago, in which the goal of segregation was advanced by the more subtle methods of real estate markets and housing policy. For the first time ever, the majority of humans live in cities, and nearly all those cities bear the scars of segregation. This unprecedented, ambitious history lays bare our troubled past, and sets us on the path to imagining the better, more equal cities of the future.

American Urbanist

Author : Richard K. Rein
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642831700
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book American Urbanist written by Richard K. Rein and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William H. Whyte's curiosity compelled him to question the status quo--whether helping to make Fortune Magazine essential reading for business leaders, warning of "groupthink" in his bestseller The Organization Man, or standing up for Jane Jacobs as she advocated for the vitality of city life and public space. This compelling biography sheds light on Whyte's bold way of thinking, ripe for rediscovery at a time when we are reshaping our communities into places of opportunity and empowerment for all citizens" -- Backcover.

American Urban Form

Author : Sam Bass Warner, Jr.
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262300923
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book American Urban Form written by Sam Bass Warner, Jr. and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Planning for the future of cities, they remind us, requires an understanding of the forces that shaped the city's past.

A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Author : Christopher McKnight Nichols
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119775701
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era written by Christopher McKnight Nichols and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era presents a collection of new historiographic essays covering the years between 1877 and 1920, a period which saw the U.S. emerge from the ashes of Reconstruction to become a world power. The single, definitive resource for the latest state of knowledge relating to the history and historiography of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Features contributions by leading scholars in a wide range of relevant specialties Coverage of the period includes geographic, social, cultural, economic, political, diplomatic, ethnic, racial, gendered, religious, global, and ecological themes and approaches In today’s era, often referred to as a “second Gilded Age,” this book offers relevant historical analysis of the factors that helped create contemporary society Fills an important chronological gap in period-based American history collections