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OverviewThis award-winning book charts the unfolding, from the Revolutionary War to the Great Depression, of the American tradition of city building and city living, using Philadelphia as a resonant example. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sam Bass Warner, Jr.Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Edition: 2nd edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.421kg ISBN: 9780812212433ISBN 10: 0812212436 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 01 June 1987 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD  We will order this item for you from a manufatured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Intorduction to the Second Edition PART ONE: THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY TOWN 1- The Environment of Private Opportunity 2- War and the Limits of the Tradition PART TWO: THE BIG CITY 1830-1860 3- Spatial Patterns of Rapid Growth 4- Industrialization 5- The Specialization of Leadership 6- Municipal Institutions 7- Riots and the Restoration of Public Order PART THREE: THE INDUSTRIAL METROPOLIS 8- The Structure of the Metropolis 9- Some Metropolitan Districts 10- The Industrial Metropolis as an Inheritance Bibliography of Recent Philadelphia Books Notes to Tables in TextReviewsPacked with suggestive historical detail. -American Historical Review With a skillful use of carefully researched detail, Warner relates the transformation from a handicraft to a factory system of production to the pervasive quest for private gain, and shows how that basic objective restricted the city's response to such community needs as education, health, and welfare. . . . His book is packed with suggestive historical detail. -American Historical Review [This book] serves, in a way which no other city biography can claim to, as the historical analogy of urban America. -Urban Studies Written with intelligent elegance and candor. . . . A fascinating book. -Times Literary Supplement A splendidly economical and enlightening piece of urban history. . . . Contributes more than an important remedial lesson in the cultural foundation of the urban crisis. -American Institute of Planners Journal With a skillful use of carefully researched detail, Warner relates the transformation from a handicraft to a factory system of production to the pervasive quest for private gain, and shows how that basic objective restricted the city's response to such community needs as education, health, and welfare. . . . His book is packed with suggestive historical detail. * <i>American Historical Review</i> * [This book] serves, in a way which no other city biography can claim to, as the historical analogy of urban America. * <i>Urban Studies</i> * Written with intelligent elegance and candor. . . . A fascinating book. * <i>Times Literary Supplement</i> * A splendidly economical and enlightening piece of urban history. . . . Contributes more than an important remedial lesson in the cultural foundation of the urban crisis. * <i>American Institute of Planners Journal</i> * Packed with suggestive historical detail. -American Historical Review With a skillful use of carefully researched detail, Warner relates the transformation from a handicraft to a factory system of production to the pervasive quest for private gain, and shows how that basic objective restricted the city's response to such community needs as education, health, and welfare... His book is packed with suggestive historical detail. -American Historical Review [This book] serves, in a way which no other city biography can claim to, as the historical analogy of urban America. -Urban Studies Written with intelligent elegance and candor... A fascinating book. -Times Literary Supplement Packed with suggestive historical detail. -American Historical Review With a skillful use of carefully researched detail, Warner relates the transformation from a handicraft to a factory system of production to the pervasive quest for private gain, and shows how that basic objective restricted the city's response to such community needs as education, health, and welfare... His book is packed with suggestive historical detail. -American Historical Review [This book] serves, in a way which no other city biography can claim to, as the historical analogy of urban America. -Urban Studies Written with intelligent elegance and candor... A fascinating book. -Times Literary Supplement Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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