The Urban Wilderness
Subtitle: A History of the American City (Classics in Urban History, 5)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 28, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780520202245
Subjects: American history; Social history; Social welfare & social services; Urban communities; United States - General; Urban History; History; Sociology; History: American; USA; Sociology - Urban; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; Cities and towns; United States
First sentence: THE GIANT CITIES of our country have always seemed to me, as they have to most Americans, vast incomprehensible places in which I could at most know a few people, my own block or suburb, my shopping center, and my commuting paths.