Another city : urban life and urban spaces in the new American republic / Dell Upton.
By: Upton, Dell
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TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008Description: x, 395 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 cmISBN: 9780300124880 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Cities and towns -- United States -- History -- 19th century | City planning -- United States -- History -- 19th century | United States -- History -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 307.760973 Online resources: Table of contents only | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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BMS College of Architecture, Design and Planning | 307.760973 UPT (Browse shelf) | Available | AR-PG238 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-386) and index.
Introduction -- Part I. The lived city -- Cities of perpetual ruin and repair -- The relics of civilized life -- The smell of danger -- Noise and gabble -- Seeing and believing -- Part II. Metropolitan improvements -- The grid and the republican spatial imagination -- Gridding consumption -- Permutations of the pigeonhole : architecture as memory -- Gridding the graveyard -- Gridded utopias -- Part III. Public spaces and private citizens -- On the waterfront -- In public walks -- Conclusion.
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