Town planning in frontier America

Town planning in frontier America

Making of urban America

1st Princeton pbk. ed.

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1971.

473 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 14 x 21 cm.

711.40973 R425 1971

(OCoLC)660102032

First published in 1970; second printing, 1971.
"Parts of this book are taken from The making of urban America ... published in 1965."
Examines American town planning and urban design from the colonial era to the early years of the twentieth century.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-456) and index.
Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Pueblo and presidio: Spanish planning in colonial America -- 3. The cities of New France -- 4. Town planning in the tidewater colonies -- 5. Pilgrims and Puritans: new towns in a new England -- 6. New Amsterdam, Philadelphia, and towns of the middle colonies -- 7. Colonial town planning in Carolina and Georgia -- 8. Pioneer cities of the Ohio Valley -- 9. Washington: a new capital for a new nation -- 10. Urban planning on the Great Lakes frontier -- 11. Cities of Zion: the quest for utopia -- 12. Towns, time, and tradition: the legacy of planning in frontier America.
M 75.5 A 7068

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