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Chapter 6. The Grid and the Republican Spatial Imagination
Dell Upton
Description: Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic
Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic
~In 1789, after a conservative counterrevolution reversed many of the democratic reforms of the revolutionary years, the Pennsylvania legislature restored Philadelphia’s charter, which had been revoked under the 1776 state constitution. The...
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Dell Upton
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2008 by Dell Upton
Related print edition pages: pp.113-144
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00271.007
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21811
Chapter subject tags:Philadelphia (Pa.)--HistoryGrid plans (City planning)UrbanizationNatural historyCities and towns--United States--History--19th century

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