Part Two: Metropolitan Improvements

Upton, Dell

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Part Two: Metropolitan Improvements

Dell Upton

Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic

Part Two

Author

Dell Upton

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00271.006

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21810

Part Two: Metropolitan Improvements

Chapter 6. The Grid and the Republican Spatial Imagination

Chapter 7. Gridding Consumption

Chapter 8. Permutations of the Pigeonhole: Architecture as Memory

Chapter 9. Gridding the Graveyard

Chapter 10. Gridded Utopias

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BOOKAnother City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic

Dell Upton

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00271

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21800

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, burgeoning American cities like New Orleans and Philadelphia seemed increasingly chaotic. Noise, odors, and a feverish level of activity on the streets threatened to overwhelm the senses. Growing populations placed new demands on every aspect of the urban landscape—streets, parks, schools, asylums, cemeteries, markets, waterfronts, and more. In this unique exploration of the early history of urban architecture and design, leading architectural historian Dell Upton reveals the fascinating confluence of sociological, cultural, and psychological factors that shaped American cities in the antebellum years.

Through contemporary travel accounts, diaries, and correspondence, as well as maps, architectural drawings, paintings, and prints—many previously unpublished—Upton investigates not only how buildings were designed, streets were laid out, and urban space was put to use, but also why. He offers original insights into the way cities were imagined, and an extensive selection of illustrations recreates the various features of the urban landscape in the nineteenth century.

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*Many of the black-and-white images in the original print edition have been replaced by color images in this ePortal version."

Author

Dell Upton

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date September 2008 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300124880

EISBN 9780300265828

Illustrations 164

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