American Urban Form: A Representative History - Couverture souple

Livre 35 sur 70: Urban and Industrial Environments

Warner Jr., Sam Bass; Whittemore, Andrew

 
9780262525329: American Urban Form: A Representative History
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0262525321 ISBN 13 : 9780262525329
Editeur : MIT Press, 2013

Synopsis

An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis.

American Urban Form—the spaces, places, and boundaries that define city life—has been evolving since the first settlements of colonial days. The changing patterns of houses, buildings, streets, parks, pipes and wires, wharves, railroads, highways, and airports reflect changing patterns of the social, political, and economic processes that shape the city. In this book, Sam Bass Warner and Andrew Whittemore map more than three hundred years of the American city through the evolution of urban form. They do this by offering an illustrated history of “the City”—a hypothetical city (constructed from the histories of Boston, Philadelphia, and New York) that exemplifies the American city's transformation from village to regional metropolis.

In an engaging text accompanied by Whittemore's detailed, meticulous drawings, they chart the City's changes. Planning for the future of cities, they remind us, requires an understanding of the forces that shaped the city's past.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sam Bass Warner, noted urban historian and Visiting Professor of Urban History at MIT, is the author of The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City and other books.

Andrew H. Whittemore is Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Texas Arlington.

Andrew H. Whittemore is Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Texas Arlington.

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Éditeur
MIT Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262525321
ISBN 13 
9780262525329
Reliure
Broché
Illustrateur
Whittemore Andrew
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
194
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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9780262017213: American Urban Form: A Representative History

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0262017210 ISBN 13 :  9780262017213
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2012
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