The environment and the people in American cities, 1600-1900s : disorder, inequality, and social change / Dorceta E. Taylor.

Main entry:

Taylor, Dorceta E.

Title & Author:

The environment and the people in American cities, 1600-1900s : disorder, inequality, and social change / Dorceta E. Taylor.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.

Description:

xii, 626 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The evolution of American cities -- Epidemics, cities, and environmental reform -- Wealthy urbanites : fleeing downtown and privatizing green space -- Social inequality and the quest for order in the city -- Data gathering as a mechanism for understanding the city and imposing order -- Sanitation and housing reform -- Conceptualizing and framing urban parks -- Elite ideology, activism, and park development -- Social class, activism, and park use -- Contemporary efforts to finance urban parks -- Class, race, space, and zoning in America -- Land use and zoning in American cities -- Workplace and community hazards -- The industrial workplace.

Summary:

In The Environment and the People in American Cities, Dorceta E. Taylor provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States. Taylor focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental problems, and the perceptions of and responses to breakdowns in social order, from the seventeenth century through the twentieth.-publisher description.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9780822344360 (cloth ; alk. paper)
082234436X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822344513 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0822344513 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Cities and towns United States Growth History.
Cities and towns Growth Environmental aspects United States.
Cities and towns Growth Social aspects United States.
City planning United States.
Villes États-Unis Croissance Histoire.
Villes Croissance Aspect de l'environnement États-Unis.
Villes Croissance Aspect social États-Unis.
Cities and towns Growth.
Cities and towns Growth Environmental aspects.
Cities and towns Growth Social aspects.
City planning.
Urbanität
Stadtentwicklung
Stadtplanung
Stadtsoziologie
United States.
USA

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325609
Call No.: 325609
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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