City building on the eastern frontier sorting the new nineteenth-century city
America's westward expansion involved more than pushing the frontier across the Mississippi toward the Pacific; it also consisted of urbanizing undeveloped regions of the colonial states. In 1810, New York's future governor DeWitt Clinton marveled that the "rage for erecting villages...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press
2004.
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| Colección: | Creating the North American landscape.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429946406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Vernacular urbanism and the mercantile network of new cities
- Planning the sorted city : commercial, industrial, civic
- Building the sorted city : the three epitome districts
- Refining the sorted city : appearances in the commercial district
- Gentrifying the sorted city : social sorting in the commercial district
- The Reynolds Arcade and Athenaeum
- Transportation and the changing streetscape.
