American urban form : a representative history /

Warner, Sam Bass, 1928-

American urban form : a representative history / Sam Bass Warner and Andrew H. Whittemore ; drawings by Andrew H. Whittemore. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012. - 183 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. - Urban and industrial environments . - Urban and industrial environments. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The city's seventeenth century beginnings -- The city in the mid-eighteenth century -- The merchant republic, 1820 -- The city overwhelmed, 1860 -- The city restructured, 1895 -- Toward a new economy and a novel urban form, 1925 -- The federally supported city, 1950 -- The polycentric city, 1975 -- The global city, 2000.

9780262017213 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2011033010

015990926 Uk


Cities and towns--History.--United States
City and town life--History.--United States

HT123 / .W228 2012

307.760973 / WAR/A

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