The Limits of Power
Subtitle: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 4, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9780521545709
Subjects: Urban & municipal planning; History: World; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; Sociology - Urban; United States - General; History / United States / General; Social Science-Sociology - Urban; Urbanization--United States
First sentence: On October 8, 1871, a terrible conflagration destroyed almost four square miles of densely built up land in the city of Chicago.