The making of urban America : a history of city planning in the United States /

Reps, John William

The making of urban America : a history of city planning in the United States / - Princeton, New Jersey Princeton University Press c1965 - xv, 574 p. il., mps., plns. 21 cm.

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European planning on the eve of american colonization -- The spanish towns of colonial America -- The towns of new France -- Town planning in the tidewater colonies -- New towns in a New England -- New Amsterdam, Philadelphia, and towns of the middle colonies -- Colonial Towns of Carolina and Georgia -- Pioneer cities of the Ohio Valley -- Planning the national capital -- Boulevard baroque and diagonal designs -- Gridiron cities and checkerboard plans -- Cemeteries, parks, and suburbs : picturesque planning in the romantic style -- Cities for sale : land speculation in american planning -- Towns by the tracks -- The towns the companies built -- Cities of Zion : the planning of utopian and religious communities -- Minor towns and mutatn plans -- Chicago fair and capital city : the rebirth of american urban planning.

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