Title & Author:

Two centuries of American planning / edited by Daniel Schaffer.

Publication:

London : Mansell, 1987.

Description:

329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Studies in history, planning and the environment
An Alexandrine Press book

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Daniel Schaffer -- The greatest grid: the New York Plan of 1811 / Edward K. Spann -- The early nineteenth-century suburg: creating a suburban ethos in Somerville and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1820-1860 / Henry C. Binford -- The late nineteenth-century suburb: creating a suburban ethos for Chicago's North Shore, 1855-1900 / Michael H. Ebner -- Frederick Law Olmsted, the placemaker / Dana F. White -- The Seattle park system and the ideal of the city beautiful / William H. Wilson -- Comprehensive planning before the comprehensive plan: a new look at the nineteenth-century American city / David C. Hammack -- Regional planning for the great American metropolis: New York between the world wars / David A. Johnson -- The New Deal and American planning: the 1930s / John Hancock -- The paradox of post-war urban planning: downtown revitalization versus decent housing for all / John F. Bauman -- The post-war American suburb: a new form, a new city / Robert Fishman -- Problems of governance and the professions of planners: the planning profession in the 1980's / Howell S. Baum -- The future of the metropolitan region / David R. Goldfield.
British Library not licensed to copy 0.

ISBN:

0720118034
9780720118032

Subject:

City planning United States History.
City planning.
Stadsplanning.
Urbanisme États-Unis Histoire.
United States.
United States Urban regions Environment planning, ca 1800-1985

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Schaffer, Daniel, 1950-
Studies in history, planning, and the environment.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 38704
Call No.: ID:88-B9485
Status: Available