Town planning in frontier America / John W. Reps.

Main entry:

Reps, John William.

Title & Author:

Town planning in frontier America / John W. Reps.

Publication:

Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, 1980.

Description:

328 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-312) and index.
Introduction -- Pueblo and Presidio : Spanish planning in colonial America -- The cities of New France -- Town planning in the Tidewater colonies -- Pilgrims and Puritans : new towns in a new England -- New Amsterdam, Philadelphia, and towns of the middle colonies -- Colonial town planning in Carolina and Georgia -- Pioneer cities of the Ohio Valley -- Washington : a new capital for a new nation -- Urban planning on the Great Lakes frontier -- Cities of Zion : the quest for utopia -- Towns, time, and tradition : the legacy of planning in frontier America.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

0826203167 (pbk.)
9780826203168 (pbk.)

Subject:

City planning United States.
Frontier and pioneer life United States.
City planning
Frontier and pioneer life
United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
États-Unis Histoire ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
United States

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 79503
Call No.: ID:85-B10103
Status: Available

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