The private city : Philadelphia in three periods of its growth
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The private city : Philadelphia in three periods of its growth
University of Pennsylvania Press, c1987
2nd ed.
- : pbk.
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Note
Bibliography: p. 225-244
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk. ISBN 9780812212433
Description
This award-winning book charts the unfolding, from the Revolutionary War to the Great Depression, of the American tradition of city building and city living, using Philadelphia as a resonant example.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Intorduction to the Second Edition
PART ONE: THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY TOWN
1- The Environment of Private Opportunity
2- War and the Limits of the Tradition
PART TWO: THE BIG CITY 1830-1860
3- Spatial Patterns of Rapid Growth
4- Industrialization
5- The Specialization of Leadership
6- Municipal Institutions
7- Riots and the Restoration of Public Order
PART THREE: THE INDUSTRIAL METROPOLIS
8- The Structure of the Metropolis
9- Some Metropolitan Districts
10- The Industrial Metropolis as an Inheritance
Bibliography of Recent Philadelphia Books
Notes to Tables in Text
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ISBN 9780812280616
Description
This award-winning book charts the unfolding, from the Revolutionary War to the Great Depression, of the American tradition of city building and city living, using Philadelphia as a resonant example.
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