Two centuries of American planning
By: edited by Daniel Schaffer.
Contributors: Schaffer, Daniel, 1950-
Series: Studies in history, planning, and the environment
Publisher: Mansell
Published: 1988
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: City planning -- United States -- History.; Regional planning -- United States -- History.
Notes: "An Alexandrine Press book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Daniel Schaffer; title: The greatest grid: the New York Plan of 1811 / Edward K. Spann; title: The early nineteenth-century suburb: creating a suburban ethos in Somerville and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1820-1860 / Henry C. Binford; title: The late nineteenth-century suburb: creating a suburban ethos for Chicago's North Shore, 1855-1900 / Michael H. Ebner; title: Frederick Law Olmsted, the placemaker / Dana F. White; title: The Seattle park system and the ideal of the city beautiful / William H. Wilson; title: Comprehensive planning before the comprehensive plan: a new look at the nineteenth-century American city / David C. Hammack; title: Regional planning for the great American metropolis: New York between the world wars / David A. Johnson; title: The New Deal and American planning: the 1930s / John Hancock; title: The paradox of post-war urban planning: downtown revitalization versus decent housing for all / John F. Bauman; title: The post-war American suburb: a new form, a new city / Robert Fishman; title: Problems of governance and the professions of planners: the planning profession in the 1980's / Howell S. Baum; title: The future of the metropolitan region / David R. Goldfield.