Upton, Dell.

Another city : urban life and urban spaces in the new American republic / Dell Upton. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008. - x, 395 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 cm.

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.

9780300124880 (cloth : alk. paper)


Cities and towns--History--United States--19th century.
City planning--History--United States--19th century.


United States--History--19th century.

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