Two Centuries of American Planning

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. 329 pages: illustrations; 24 cm; bibliographical references and index. As new; very fine. Paperback. ISBN: 0801837197 ; 9780801837197

Contents: Introduction / Daniel Schaffer -- The greatest grid: the New York Plan of 1811 / Edward K. Spann -- The early nineteenth-century suburb: 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.

Regional planning -- United States -- History. Aménagement du territoire -- États-Unis -- Histoire. Urbanisme -- États-Unis -- Histoire. City planning. Regional planning. Stadsplanning. Geographic: United States. Identifier: City planning; History; United States; Regional planning; History; United States Class Descriptors: LC: HT167; Dewey: 361.6/0973 Responsibility: edited by Daniel Schaffer.