America Becomes Urban
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America Becomes Urban
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Author : Eric H. Monkkonen
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2018-09-25
America Becomes Urban written by Eric H. Monkkonen and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-25 with History categories.
America's cities: celebrated by poets, courted by politicians, castigated by social reformers. In their numbers and complexity they challenge comprehension. Why is urban America the way it is? Eric Monkkonen offers a fresh approach to the myths and the history of US urban development, giving us an unexpected and welcome sense of our urban origins. His historically anchored vision of our cities places topics of finance, housing, social mobility, transportation, crime, planning, and growth into a perspective which explains the present in terms of the past and ofers a point from which to plan for the future. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988 with a paperback in 1990.
The Making Of Urban America
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Author : John William Reps
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1965
The Making Of Urban America written by John William Reps and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Architecture categories.
This comprehensive survey of urban growth in America has become a standard work in the field. From the early colonial period to the First World War, John Reps explores to what extent city planning has been rooted in the nation's tradition, showing the extent of European influence on early communities. Illustrated by over three hundred reproductions of maps, plans, and panoramic views, this book presents hundreds of American cities and the unique factors affecting their development.
City On A Hill
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Author : Alex Krieger
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-29
City On A Hill written by Alex Krieger and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-29 with History categories.
A sweeping history of American cities and towns, and the utopian aspirations that shaped them, by one of America’s leading urban planners and scholars. The first European settlers saw America as a paradise regained. The continent seemed to offer a God-given opportunity to start again and build the perfect community. Those messianic days are gone. But as Alex Krieger argues in City on a Hill, any attempt at deep understanding of how the country has developed must recognize the persistent and dramatic consequences of utopian dreaming. Even as ideals have changed, idealism itself has for better and worse shaped our world of bricks and mortar, macadam, parks, and farmland. As he traces this uniquely American story from the Pilgrims to the “smart city,” Krieger delivers a striking new history of our built environment. The Puritans were the first utopians, seeking a New Jerusalem in the New England villages that still stand as models of small-town life. In the Age of Revolution, Thomas Jefferson dreamed of citizen farmers tending plots laid out across the continent in a grid of enlightened rationality. As industrialization brought urbanization, reformers answered emerging slums with a zealous crusade of grand civic architecture and designed the vast urban parks vital to so many cities today. The twentieth century brought cycles of suburban dreaming and urban renewal—one generation’s utopia forming the next one’s nightmare—and experiments as diverse as Walt Disney’s EPCOT, hippie communes, and Las Vegas. Krieger’s compelling and richly illustrated narrative reminds us, as we formulate new ideals today, that we chase our visions surrounded by the glories and failures of dreams gone by.
The Making Of Urban America
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Author : John William Reps
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-10-12
The Making Of Urban America written by John William Reps and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-12 with History categories.
This comprehensive survey of urban growth in America has become a standard work in the field. From the early colonial period to the First World War, John Reps explores to what extent city planning has been rooted in the nation's tradition, showing the extent of European influence on early communities. Illustrated by over three hundred reproductions of maps, plans, and panoramic views, this book presents hundreds of American cities and the unique factors affecting their development.
Encyclopedia Of American Urban History
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Author : David Goldfield
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2007
Encyclopedia Of American Urban History written by David Goldfield and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Edited by one of the leading scholars of urban studies, this encyclopedia offers an accurate and authoritative historical approach to the dramatic urban growth experienced in the United States during the 20th century.
Crabgrass Frontier
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Author : Kenneth T. Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1987-04-16
Crabgrass Frontier written by Kenneth T. Jackson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-04-16 with History categories.
This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, and rapid transportation, Kenneth Jackson chronicles the phenomenal growth of the American suburb from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. He treats communities in every section of the U.S. and compares American residential patterns with those of Japan and Europe. In conclusion, Jackson offers a controversial prediction: that the future of residential deconcentration will be very different from its past in both the U.S. and Europe.
Latin American Urban Development Into The Twenty First Century
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Author : D. Rodgers
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-10-10
Latin American Urban Development Into The Twenty First Century written by D. Rodgers and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-10 with Business & Economics categories.
By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban reality, and the consequences for both Latin America and the rest of the developing world.
Supersizing Urban America
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Author : Chin Jou
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-03-15
Supersizing Urban America written by Chin Jou and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-15 with Business & Economics categories.
Supersizing Urban America reveals how the US government has been, and remains, a major contributor to America s obesity epidemic. Government policies, targeted food industry advertising, and other factors helped create and reinforce fast food consumption in America s urban communities. Historian Chin Jou uncovers how predominantly African-American neighborhoods went from having no fast food chains to being deluged. She lays bare the federal policies that helped to subsidize the expansion of the fast food industry in America s cities and explains how fast food companies have deliberately and relentlessly marketed to urban, African-American consumers. These developments are a significant factor in why Americans, especially those in urban, low-income, minority communities, have become disproportionately affected by the obesity epidemic."
When America Became Suburban
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Author : Robert A. Beauregard
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2006-08-25
When America Became Suburban written by Robert A. Beauregard and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-25 with Social Science categories.
In the decades after World War II, the United States became the most prosperous nation in the world and a superpower whose dominance was symbolized by the American suburbs. Spurred by the decline of its industrial cities and by mass suburbanization, people imagined a new national identity—one that emphasized consumerism, social mobility, and a suburban lifestyle. The urbanity of the city was lost. In When America Became Suburban, Robert A. Beauregard examines this historic intersection of urban decline, mass suburbanization, domestic prosperity, and U.S. global aspirations as it unfolded from 1945 to the mid-1970s. Suburban expansion and the subsequent emergence of sprawling Sunbelt cities transformed every aspect of American society. Assessing the global implications of America’s suburban way of life as evidence of the superiority of capitalist democracy, Beauregard traces how the suburban ideology enabled America to distinguish itself from both the Communist bloc and Western Europe, thereby deepening its claim of exceptionalism on the world-historical stage. Placing the decline of America’s industrial cities and the rise of vast suburban housing and retail spaces into a cultural, political, and global context, Beauregard illuminates how these phenomena contributed to a changing notion of America’s identity at home and abroad. When America Became Suburban brings to light the profound implications of de-urbanization: from the siphoning of investments from the cities and the effect on the quality of life for those left behind to a profound shift in national identity. Robert A. Beauregard is a professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. He is the author of Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of U.S. Cities and editor of Economic Restructuring and Political Response and Atop the Urban Hierarchy.
Saving Our Cities
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Author : William W. Goldsmith
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2016
Saving Our Cities written by William W. Goldsmith and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Architecture categories.
Introduction : looking upstream -- Cities as political targets -- Cities as budget-cutting targets -- Troubled city schools : social class, race, and place -- Options for city schools -- The paradox of plenty -- Drugs, prisons, and neighborhoods -- Drug war politics -- Conclusion : democracy, inequality, urban policy