acknowledgments, I. Taking Up the Land: 1. Tradition as Determinant: New England Folk Planning, the Weight of English Custom, Resistance to Change; 2. Saving Yesterday's Property: Management of Land, Zoning, City Planning, and Interstate Highways. II. Building a Nation of Cities: 3. The Engine of Private Enterprise: New York 1820-70: Commerce, Canals, and Sweatshops; 4. The Segregated City: Chicago 1870-1920: Factories, Railroads, and Skyscrapers; 5. The New Freedom: Los Angeles 1820- : Bureaucracy, Racism, and Automobiles. III. The Past in the Present: 6. The Inheritance of the Neighborhoods: Processing Migrants by Class, Race, and Religion; Four-Part Cultures; 7. Coping with the Urban Environment: Public Crises and Private Benefit; The Response of Charity, Reform, and Science; 8. the Neglect of Everyday Life: Pouring New Money into Old Institutions; Housing and Health Care; 9. Choice and Continuity; Summary; a bibliographic guide, index. This volume show how our cities have systematically chosen to aid middle Americans in the name of helping the poor, to use government to foster class and racial segregation, to cherish private land over public service." from the jacket flap.

The urban wilderness;: A history of the American city

Politics & Social Sciences

Warner, Sam Bass

Sociology

Harper&Row

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.

American Urban Form: A Representative History (Urban and Industrial Environments)

Whittemore, Andrew H.

Social Sciences

Mit Pr

In The Exploding Metropolis, first published in 1958, William H. Whyte, Jane Jacobs, Francis Bello, Seymour Freedgood, and Daniel Seligman address the problems of urban decline and suburban sprawl, transportation, city politics, open space, and the character and fabric of cities. A new foreword by Sam Bass Warner, Jr., and preface by Whyte demonstrate the relevance of The Exploding Metropolis to urban issues in the 90s.

The Exploding Metropolis (Volume 1)

History

Whyte Jr., William H.

Americas

University of California Press

Sam Bass Warner, Jr., examines the historical roots of the major economic and social problems facing the U.S. in the 1990s. He documents the efforts, both failed and successful, to provide for basic human needs in the urban context, especially for decent housing and health care. For this edition, Warner provides a new preface and Charles Tilly a new foreword.

The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City (Classics in Urban History)

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