Main entry:

Sandweiss, Eric.

Title & Author:

St. Louis : the evolution of an American urban landscape / Eric Sandweiss.

Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2001.

Description:

xiii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Series:

Critical perspectives on the past

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-275) and index.
Introduction: Fenced-Off Corners, Wider Settings, and the New American Landscape -- Laying the Groundwork -- Lines on the Land: the Lingering Imprint of Colonial St. Louis -- "The Inhabitants of St. Louis" and Their Land: Redefining Urban Order in Antebellum St. Louis -- Building the Fenced-Off Corners -- Producers: the Evolution of the Private City-Building Process -- Consumers: Everyday Space in Four Neighborhoods -- Regulators: Public Improvements in the Urban Landscape -- Conceiving the Wider Setting -- The Evolution of Civic Improvement and City Planning Ideals from 1890 to 1950 -- Epilogue: Rethinking the Contours of Community in the Declining City, 1950 to the Present.

Summary:

St. Louis' story stands for the story of all those cities whose ambitions and civic self-image, forged from the growth of the mercantile and industrial eras, have been dramatically altered over time. More dramatically, perhaps, than most but in a manner shared by all St. Louis' changing economic base, shifting population, and altered landscape have forced scholars, policymakers, and residents alike to acknowledge the transiency of what once seemed inexorable metropolitan trends: concentration, growth, accumulated wealth, and generally improved well-being. In this book, Eric Sandweiss scrutinizes the everyday landscape streets, houses, neighborhoods, and public buildings as it evolved in a classic American city.Bringing to life the spaces that most of us pass without noticing, he reveals how the processes of dividing, trading, improving, and dwelling upon land are acts that reflect and shape social relations. From its origins as a French colonial settlement in the eighteenth century to the present day, "St Louis" offers a story not just about how our past is diagramed in brick and asphalt, but also about the American city's continuing viability as a place where the balance of individual rights and collective responsibilities can be debated, demonstrated, and adjusted for generations to come. -- Amazon.com.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

1566398851 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781566398855 (cloth ; alk. paper)
156639886X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781566398862 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning Missouri Saint Louis History.
Cities and towns Missouri Saint Louis Growth.
Landscape architecture Missouri Saint Louis History.
Landscape changes Government policy Missouri Saint Louis.
Public spaces Missouri Saint Louis History.
Urban landscape architecture Missouri Saint Louis History.
Urbanisme Missouri Saint Louis Histoire.
Villes Missouri Saint Louis, Agglomération de Croissance.
Paysage urbain Missouri Saint Louis Histoire.
Paysages Modifications Politique gouvernementale Missouri Saint Louis.
Espaces publics Missouri Saint Louis Histoire.
Villes Missouri Saint Louis Croissance.
Architecture du paysage Missouri Saint Louis Histoire.
Urban landscape architecture
Cities and towns Growth
City planning
Ecology
Landscape architecture
Public spaces
Social conditions
Saint Louis (Mo.) History.
Saint Louis (Mo.) Social conditions.
Saint Louis (Mo.) Environmental conditions.
Saint Louis (Mo.) Histoire.
Saint Louis (Mo.) Conditions sociales.
Missouri Saint Louis

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Critical perspectives on the past.

Saint Louis

Holdings:

Location: Library main 219796
Call No.: HT168.S79 S3 2001
Status: Available