Domesticating the street : the reform of public space in Hartford, 1850-1930 / Peter C. Baldwin.

Main entry:

Baldwin, Peter C., 1962-

Title & Author:

Domesticating the street : the reform of public space in Hartford, 1850-1930 / Peter C. Baldwin.

Publication:

Description:

ix, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Urban life and urban landscape series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-348) and index.
Introduction: The view from the state house square -- Horace Bushnell and the origins of segregated space -- Purifying the city -- The fight against the vice district -- Saving the newsies -- Segregating the parks -- "The children are off the streets" -- Expressmen and peddlers -- Creating a traffic system -- City plans -- Of Hartford seen in a different light.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

081420824X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780814208243 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0814250262 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780814250266 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning Connecticut Hartford History.
Public spaces Connecticut Hartford History.
Espaces publics Connecticut Hartford Histoire.
City planning.
Public spaces.
Openbare ruimte.
Ordening.
Openbare orde.
Steden.
City planning Connecticut.
Public spaces Connecticut Hartford.
Connecticut Hartford.
Hartford (Conn.) City planning.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Urban life and urban landscape series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 226573
Call No.: HT168.H29 B35 1999
Status: Available

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