The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America - Couverture rigide

Rosen, Christine Meisner

 
9780521303194: The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0521303192 ISBN 13 : 9780521303194
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1986

Synopsis

Chicago, Boston, and Baltimore all suffered terrible fires in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Residents of these cities agreed that the destruction caused by the fires provided them with a special opportunity to improve their inadequately built cities. This book examines these rebuildings, using each to examine in close detail the process of city growth. The massive population growth and economic expansion of the nineteenth century necessitated that every aspect of the urban environment be redeveloped. Yet, at virtually every stage of city growth, the achievement of environmental adaptation lagged significantly behind the need for change. The innovative features of this book will make it useful to all readers interested in city growth. By drawing on several fields of the social sciences, the author develops a conceptual framework for explaining the barriers to environmental improvement; and through the historical narrative, the usefulness of this framework is demonstrated.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Chicago, Boston, and Baltimore all suffered terrible fires in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Residents of these cities agreed that the destruction caused by the fires provided them with a special opportunity to improve their inadequately built cities. This book examines these rebuildings, using each to examine in close detail the process of city growth. The massive population growth and economic expansion of the nineteenth century necessitated that every aspect of the urban environment be redeveloped. Yet, at virtually every stage of city growth, the achievement of environmental adaptation lagged significantly behind the need for change. The innovative features of this book will make it useful to all readers interested in city growth. By drawing on several fields of the social sciences, the author develops a conceptual framework for explaining the barriers to environmental improvement; and through the historical narrative, the usefulness of this framework is demonstrated.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1986
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521303192
ISBN 13 
9780521303194
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
418
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780521545709: The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521545706 ISBN 13 :  9780521545709
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008
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