Title: Town planning in frontier America,
Authors: Reps, John William.
Publisher: Princeton University Press,
Year: 1969
Subjects: City planning United States; United States History
Abstract: "Parts of this book are taken from The making of urban America ... published in 1965." Bibliography: p. 449-456. Bibliographical footnotes.
Contents: Introduction -- Pueblo and Presidio: Spanish planning in colonial America -- The cities of New France -- Town planning in the tidewater colonies -- Pilgrims and Puritans: new towns in a New England -- New Amsterdam, Philadelphia, and towns of the middle colonies -- Colonial town planning in Carolina and Georgia -- Pioneer cities of the Ohio Valley -- Washington: a new capital a new nation -- Urban planning on the Great Lakes frontier -- Cities of Zion: the quest for utopia -- Towns, time, and tradition: the legacy of planning in frontier America -- Notes on the illustrations.