Research Catalog

Title

The making of urban America : a history of city planning in the United States / by John W. Reps.

Author

Reps, John William.

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1965.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Henrichs, Marshall Paul
• Conkwright, P. J. (P. Jefferson)

Description

xv, 574 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 23 x 28 cm

Subjects

• United States
• Illustrated works
• Pictorial works
• World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
• World's Columbian Exposition
• City planning > United States > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• Illustrated works.
• Pictorial works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-562) and index.

Contents

Preface -- European planning on the eve of American colonization -- The Spanish towns of Colonial America -- The towns of New France -- Town planning in the Tidewater Colonies -- New towns in a New England -- New Amsterdam, Philadelphia, and towns of the Middle Colonies -- Colonial towns of Carolina and Georgia -- Pioneer cities of the Ohio Valley -- Planning the national capital -- Boulevard Baroque and diagonal designs -- Gridiron cities and checkerboard plans -- Cemeteries, parks, and suburbs: picturesque planning in the romantic style -- Cities for sale: land speculation in American planning -- Towns by the tracks -- The towns the companies built -- Cities of Zion: the planning of utopian and religious communities -- Minor towns and mutant plans -- Chicago Fair and capital city: the rebirth of American urban planning.

ISBN

• 0691006180
• 9780691006185

LCCN

63023414

OCLC

• ocm01130801
• 1130801

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries