Another city : urban life and urban spaces in the new American republic / Dell Upton.

Author/creator Upton, Dell
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionx, 395 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction -- Part I. The lived city -- Cities of perpetual ruin and repair -- The relics of civilized life -- The smell of danger -- Noise and gabble -- Seeing and believing -- Part II. Metropolitan improvements -- The grid and the republican spatial imagination -- Gridding consumption -- Permutations of the pigeonhole : architecture as memory -- Gridding the graveyard -- Gridded utopias -- Part III. Public spaces and private citizens -- On the waterfront -- In public walks -- Conclusion.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 341-386) and index.
LCCN 2008001346
ISBN9780300124880 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0300124880 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks HT123 .U68 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold