Title & Author:

The historian and the city / edited by Oscar Handlin and John Burchard.

Publication:

[Cambridge, Mass.] M.I.T. Press, 1963.

Description:

xii, 299 pages 25 cm

Series:

Publications of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.

Notes:
Includes papers delivered at a conference convened by the Joint Center for Urban Studies, in August, 1961.
"Publications of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University."
Papers presented at the Conference on the City in History convened by the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the Harvard University Summer Session in August, 1961.
Includes index.
"A selection of works relating to the history of cities": pages 270-290.
PART ONE: Introduction -- The Modern City as a Field of Historical Study / Oscar Handlin-- PART TWO: The City in Technological Innovation and Economic Development -- The Crossroads Within the Wall / Robert S. Lopez -- The Economic Significance of Cities / Shigeto Tsuru -- City Economies: Then and Now / Alexander Gerschenkron -- Innovation and the Industrialization of Philadelphia 1800-1850 / Sam B. Warner, Jr. -- The Economics of Urbanization / Aaron Fleisher -- The Organization of Technological Innovation in Urban Environments / Richard L. Meier -- PART THREE: The City in the History of Ideas -- Two Stages in the Critique of the American City / Morton White -- The Idea of the City in European Thought: Voltaire to Spengler / Carl E. Schorske -- Boosters, Intellectuals, and the American City / Frank Freidel -- The City as the Idea of Social Oder / Slyvia L. Thrupp -- PART FOUR: History and the Contemporary Urban World -- The Death of the City: A Frightened Look at Postcivilization / Kenneth E. Boulding -- Implications of Modern City Growth / Denis W. Brogan -- PART FIVE: The City as an Artifact -- Urban Forms / Sir John Summerson -- Proprietary Philadelphia as Artifact / Anthony N.B. Garvan -- The Form of the Modern Metropolis / Walter L. Creese -- The Visible Character of the City / Henry Millon -- PART SIX: Planners and Interpreters of the City -- The Customary and the Characteristic: A Note on the Pursuit of City Planning History / Christopher Tunnard -- Urbanization and Social Change; on Broadening the Scope and Relevance of Urban History / Eric E. Lampard -- The Building Blocks of Urban History / Frederick Gutheim & Atlee E. Shidler -- PART SEVEN: Conclusion -- Some Afterthoughts / John Burchard -- A Selection of Works Relating to the History of Cities / Philip Dawson & Sam B. Warner, Jr.
Also issued online.
Dust jacket.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0262580063
9780262580069

Subject:

Cities and towns.
Sociology, Urban.
Cities
Villes.
Sociologie urbaine.
cities.
urban sociology.
Stadsgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
Sociologia Urbana.
Planejamento Territorial Urbano.
Urbanisation Congrès.
Sociologie urbaine Congrès.
Villes Historiographie Congrès.
Urbanization
City planning

Form/genre:

Conference publications.

Added entries:

Handlin, Oscar, 1915-2011, editor.
Burchard, John E. (John Ely), 1898-1975, editor.
Handlin, Oscar, 1915-
Burchard, John E. (John Ely), 1898-1975
Joint Center for Urban Studies.
Conference on the City in History (1961 : Cambridge, Mass.)
Publication of the Joint Center for Urban Studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 154158
Call No.: NA9010 .H5 1963
Status: Available