Synopses & Reviews
Review
andquot;These 4,480 views provide a remarkable record of American townscape for a century, and that record is made more accessible, more valuable and infinitely more enjoyable with the publication of John Reps's magnificent Views and Viewmakers of Urban Americaandquot;--New York Times Book Review
About the Author
John W. Reps is Professor of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University.and#160; He is the author of numerous works includingand#160;The Forgotten Frontier: Urbanand#160;Planning in the American West before 1890and#160;(University of Missouri Press, 1982); and#160;Cities of the American West:and#160; A History of Frontier Urban Planningand#160;(Princeton University Press, 1979). for which he received the Albert J. Beveridge Prize of the American Historical Association;and#160;and Town Planning in Frontier America (Princeton University Press, 1965; paper edition, University of Missouri Press, 1979).