The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America Contributor(s): Schuyler, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801837480 ISBN-13: 9780801837487 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1988 Annotation: In "one of the best books available on the changing physical form of the nineteenth-century city in America (Arnold R. Alanen, University of Wisconsin, Madison), Schuyler analyzes efforts by the civic leaders of that time to define a new urban culture by creating open recreational and residential areas for growing cities. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - History | United States - 19th Century - Architecture | Urban & Land Use Planning |
Dewey: 307.760 |
LCCN: 86007260 |
Series: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.07" W x 9.25" (0.82 lbs) 256 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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Contributor Bio(s): Schuyler, David: - David Schuyler is a professor of American studies at Franklin and Marshall College. He is the author of The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America and coeditor of three volumes of the Frederick Law Olmsted Papers, the most recent of which is The Years of Olmsted, Vaux & Company, 1865-1874, all available from Johns Hopkins. |