From improvement to city planning : spatial management in Cincinnati from the early republic through the Civil War decade

From improvement to city planning : spatial management in Cincinnati from the early republic through the Civil War decade /

"Offers a new perspective on early U.S. urban development, showing how city planning movements of the post-Civil War period were not just innovations in response to industrial urbanism but were also profoundly shaped by ideas and experiences of city living in the early republic"--

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Binford, Henry C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2021
Series:Urban life, landscape, and policy.
Subjects:
City planning > Ohio > Cincinnati > History > 19th century.
Urban renewal > Ohio > Cincinnati > History > 19th century.
Land use > Ohio > Cincinnati > History > 19th century.
Cincinnati (Ohio) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Cincinnati (Ohio) > Economic conditions > 19th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Foundation: the spatial legacy of the first Cincinnati, 1786-1820
  • Improvement: commerce, religion, and the location of urban value, 1820-1840
  • An eastern queen in a western realm: spatial management in Cincinnati, 1820-1840
  • Environmentalism: the location of urban danger, 1835-1860
  • Uncertainty: Cincinnati wrestles with industrial urbanism, 1835-1860
  • Toward planning: experiments in spatial management, 1849-1862
  • Civil War and Cincinnati reinvention: the radical moment at the local level
  • Planned and unplanned Cincinnati: the conflicted legacy of improvement.

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