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The birth of city planning in the United States, 1840-1917 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peterson, Jon A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Series:Creating the North American landscape.
Subjects:
City planning > United States > History.
Cities and towns > United States > History.
United States > Social conditions > 1865-1918.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : urban planning in the American past
  • Sanitary reform and landscape values, 1840-1890
  • Civic art, 1890-1900
  • The nation's first comprehensive city plan, 1900-1902
  • The origins of the city beautiful, 1897-1902
  • The birth of the city planning ideal, 1902-1903
  • The new planning ideal and the public interest, 1902-1904
  • The outburst of great civic schemes, 1902-1905
  • City beautiful planning : dreams and reality, 1905-1909
  • City beautiful planning : a transitional art, 1905-1909
  • The social progressive challenge, 1909
  • The birth of city planning, 1909-1910
  • An elusive quest, 1911-1917
  • Opportunistic interventionism, 1911-1917
  • Epilogue : American urban planning as a fragmented art.