02913cam a2200409 i 4500 128227 20230410120723.0 140516s2015 enka b 001 0 eng 18153592 2014018420 9781444339017 (cloth) 9781444339000 (pbk.) DLC eng DLC rda DLC pcc n-us--- HT 123 M689 2015 307.760973 The modern American metropolis : a documentary reader / edited by David M.P. Freund. Chichester, West Sussex, UK : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2015 xix, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Includes bibliographical references and index. p. 1. Cities and hinterlands in mid-nineteenth-century America -- p. 2. From walking city to industrial metropolis, 1860-1920 -- p. 3. City and suburb ascendant, 1920-1945 -- p. 4. Creating a suburban nation, 1945-1970s -- p. 5. What makes a city? The "postindustrial" metropolis. The modern American metropolis: a documentary reader introduces the history of cities and suburbs in the United States through a collection of original source materials that explore the centrality of urban change to the American experience. Readers can explore key questions and debates in urban studies by considering how a wide range of people, including themselves, has related to the built environment and to sweeping transformations in metropolitan life over the past 150 years. The collection features more than 60 primary sources, ranging from correspondence and photographs to marketing tools and government documents. An introductory essay highlights topics that link together the sources, including the physical transformation of American places, consumer culture, electoral politics, environmental change, battles over rights and opportunity, the role of technology, and contests over meaning of citizenship. Collectively, these materials reveal how the history of cities and suburbs is not limited to buildings, innovation, and politics -and not confined to municipal boundaries. The modern American metropolis enables readers to view the whole of modern US history as an essentially "metropolitan" history. Urbanization United States History. Urban policy United States History. City planning United States History. City and town life United States History. Urbanismo Historia Estados Unidos. Ciudades y pueblos Historia Estados Unidos. Urbanización Estados Unidos Historia. Política urbana Estados Unidos Historia. Planificación urbana Estados Unidos Historia. Vida urbana Estados Unidos Historia. Freund, David M. P., ed. lcc bk rsfv 50542 50542 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-04-10 1 0 HT 123 M689 2015 00000121418 2018-10-24 00:00:00 1 2018-10-24 bk