The environment and the people in American cities, 1600-1900s
Subtitle: disorder, inequality, and social change
By: Dorceta E. Taylor.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9780822344360; 9780822344513
Subjects: Cities and towns -- United States -- Growth -- History; Cities and towns -- Growth -- Environmental aspects -- United States; Cities and towns -- Growth -- Social aspects -- United States; City planning -- United States
Description: In The Environment and the People in American Cities, Dorceta E. Taylor provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States. Taylor focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental problems, and the perceptions of and responses to breakdowns in social order, from the seventeenth century through the twentieth.-publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The evolution of American cities; title: Epidemics, cities, and environmental reform; title: Wealthy urbanites : fleeing downtown and privatizing green space; title: Social inequality and the quest for order in the city; title: Data gathering as a mechanism for understanding the city and imposing order; title: Sanitation and housing reform; title: Conceptualizing and framing urban parks; title: Elite ideology, activism, and park development; title: Social class, activism, and park use; title: Contemporary efforts to finance urban parks; title: Class, race, space, and zoning in America; title: Land use and zoning in American cities; title: Workplace and community hazards; title: The industrial workplace.