Main entry:

Reps, John W. (John William)

Title & Author:

The making of urban America : a history of city planning in the United States / by John W. Reps.

Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1965.

Description:

xv, 574 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 23 x 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-562) and index.
Preface -- 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 mutant plans -- Chicago Fair and capital city: the rebirth of American urban planning.

ISBN:

0691006180 (paperback)
9780691006185 (paperback)

Subject:

Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
World's Columbian Exposition
City planning United States.
City planning United States Pictorial works.
City planning.
City Planning
Urbanisme.
urban planning.
Stadtgeschichte.
Städtebau.
Geschichte
Verstädterung
City planning United States History.
United States
Amerika.
USA

Form/genre:

Pictorial Work.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 95107
Call No.: ID GDER; ID:85-B14271
Status: Available

Location: Library main 95106
Call No.: W2239; ID:85-B14271
Status: Available