Urban life and urban spaces in the new American republic
By: Dell Upton.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300124880
Subjects: Cities and towns -- United States -- History -- 19th century; City planning -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The lived city; title: Cities of perpetual ruin and repair; title: The relics of civilized life; title: The smell of danger; title: Noise and gabble; title: Seeing and believing; title: Metropolitan improvements; title: The grid and the republican spatial imagination; title: Gridding consumption; title: Permutations of the pigeonhole : architecture as memory; title: Gridding the graveyard; title: Gridded utopias; title: Public space and private citizens; title: On the waterfront; title: In public walks; title: Conclusion.