American urban form
Subtitle: a representative history
By: Sam Bass Warner and Andrew H. Whittemore ; drawings by Andrew H. Whittemore
Contributors: Whittemore, Andrew H., 1980-
Series: Urban and industrial environments; Urban and industrial environments
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780262017213
Subjects: Cities and towns; City and town life; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The city's seventeenth century beginnings; title: The city in the mid-eighteenth century; title: The merchant republic, 1820; title: The city overwhelmed, 1860; title: The city restructured, 1895; title: Toward a new economy and a novel urban form, 1925; title: The federally supported city, 1950; title: The polycentric city, 1975; title: The global city, 2000.