Urban History pre 1950
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Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization
by Steven High and David W. Lewis  Publisher Comments Deindustrialization is not simply an economic process, but a social and cultural one as well. The rusting detritus of our industrial past: the wrecked hulks of factories, abandoned machinery too large to remove, and now-useless infrastructures, has for...
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American Urban History: An Interpretive Reader with Commentaries
by Alexander B Callow Review "Still one of the most complete and varied readers on urban history."--Kurt Leichtle, University of Wisconsin, River Falls "The best reader available in Urban History of the U.S. It has a broad base incorporating pertinent studies in disciplines other...
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Cities
by John Reader Publisher Comments A magisterial exploration of the nature of the city from its beginnings to contemporary Cairo, the largest city the world has known. In his new book, an exploration of the city’s functions and forms, John Reader grounds his work in broad-based...
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From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America
by John F Bauman Synopsis Authored by prominent scholars, the twelve essays in this volume use the historical perspective to explore American urban housing policy as it unfolded from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. Focusing on the enduring quest of...
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Local Attachments the Making of an Ameri
by Alexand Von Hoffman Publisher Comments In Local Attachments Alexander von Hoffman explores the emergence of the modern urban neighborhood in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by examining Boston's outer-city neighborhood, Jamaica Plain. Like other...
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Cities
by John Reader Publisher Comments In a sweeping treatment that covers a span from ancient Sumeria to the present, the author plumbs the mysteries of the city, explaining how they work and why they sometimes fail, discussing agriculture, engineering, public works, religion, and much more....
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Shame of the Cities (04 Edition)
by Lincoln Steffens Publisher Comments This muckraking classic attacked corrupt election practices and shady dealings in businesses and city governments across the nation. Taking a hard look at the unprincipled lives of political bosses, police corruption, graft payments, and other notorious...
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Alabaster Cities: Urban U.S. Since 1950 (Space, Place, and Society)
by John Rennie Short Book News Annotation Drawing on numerous studies, personal narratives, census figures and other statistical data, Short (geography and public policy, U. of Maryland, Baltimore County) chronicles the steady rise of urbanization, the increasing suburbanization and the...
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Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930
by Robert M Fogelson Publisher Comments The quintessential American suburbs, with their gracious single-family homes, large green lawns, and leaf-shaded streets, reflected not only residents’ dreams but nightmares, not only hopes but fears: fear of others, of racial minorities and...
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Cities (05 Edition)
by John Reader Publisher Comments John Reader, author of the seminal book Africa: A Biography of the Continent, now brings us Cities: A Magisterial Exploration of the Nature and Impact of the City from Its Beginnings to the Mega-Conurbations of Today?an eye-opening journey from the...
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
by William Cronon Synopsis In this groundbreaking work, a Yale University professor of history gives an environmental perspective on the history of 19th-century America. "No one has written about Chicago with more power, clarity, and intelligence than Cronon. Indeed, no one has...
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The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning
by Le Corbusier Publisher Comments The great revolutionary architect's probing analysis of urban problems and their origins, and his bold solutions, which include the "Voisin" scheme for the center of Paris, and the more developed scheme for a "City of Three Million Inhabitants...
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When America Became Suburban
by Robert A. Beauregard Publisher Comments In the decades after World War II, the United States became the most prosperous nation in the world and a superpower whose dominance was symbolized by the American suburbs. Spurred by the decline of its industrial cities and by mass suburbanization...
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Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950
by Robert Fogelson Synopsis Downtown is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. Urban historian Robert Fogelson gives a riveting account of how downtown--and the way Americans thought about it--changed between 1880 and 1950. Recreating battles...
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Studies in Industry and Society #19: The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City
by Sara E Wermiel Publisher Comments From the first American attempts at fireproof construction in the 1790s to the steel and concrete high-rises of the early twentieth century, The Fireproof Building traces the development of structural fire protection in America and its important...
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The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy: ,
by Richardson Dilworth Publisher Comments Using the urbanized area that spreads across northern New Jersey and around New York City as a case study, this book presents a convincing explanation of metropolitan fragmentation--the process by which suburban communities remain as is or break off and...
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The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1895 (Dover Books on Art, Art History)
by Lewis Mumford Publisher Comments Buried renaissance of Root, Sullivan, Roebling, W. Homer, Eakins, Ryder, others. 12 illustrations....
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The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ)
by Martin V Melosi Publisher Comments Immersed in their on-demand, highly consumptive, and disposable lifestyles, most urban Americans take for granted the technologies that provide them with potable water, remove their trash, and process their wastewater. These vital services, however, are...
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Fighting Traffic Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City the Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
by Peter D Norton Publisher Comments Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pedestrians were condemned as...
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The City in History
by Lewis Mumford Publisher Comments The city’s development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner of the National Book Award. “One of the major works of scholarship of the twentieth century” (Christian Science Monitor). Index; illustrations....
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