Toward an urban vision : ideas and institutions in nineteenth century America / Thomas Bender

Author:: Bender, Thomas
Published:: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
Copyright Date:: ©1975
Physical Description:: xiv, 277 pages ; 23 cm

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Contents:

Introduction : the challenge of the city -- Agrarianism and industrialism, 1800-1860 -- Men, machines, and factories : toward urban industrialism -- Urban industrialism and the American landscape : Lowell -- The discovery of urban society : Lowell -- The idea of community and the problem of organization in urban reform -- Cityscape and landscape in America : Frederick Law Olmsted.

Subject(s):

Cities and towns—United States—History
Urbanization—United States—History
Sociology, Urban
Lowell (Mass.)—History

ISBN:

0801829259 (pbk.)

Note:

Originally published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1975.
Includes index.
Description based on surrogate.

Bibliography Note:

Bibliography: pages 255-268.

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