Main entry:

Shaw, Diane, 1959-

Title & Author:

City building on the eastern frontier : sorting the new nineteenth-century city / by Diane Shaw.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2004.

Description:

xi, 209 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Series:

Creating the North American landscape

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Vernacular urbanism and the mercantile network of new cities -- Planning the sorted city : commercial, industrial, civic -- Building the sorted city : the three epitome districts -- Refining the sorted city : appearances in the commercial district -- Gentrifying the sorted city : social sorting in the commercial district -- The Reynolds Arcade and Athenaeum -- Transportation and the changing streetscape.
Also issued online.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"America's westward expansion involved more than pushing the frontier across the Mississippi toward the Pacific; it also consisted of urbanizing undeveloped regions of the colonial states. In 1810, New York's future governor DeWitt Clinton marveled that the "rage for erecting villages is a perfect mania." The development of Rochester and Syracuse illuminates the national experience of internal economic and cultural colonization during the first half of the nineteenth century. Architectural historian Diane Shaw examines the ways in which these new cities were shaped by a variety of constituents - founders, merchants, politicians, and settlers - as opportunities to extend the commercial and social benefits of the market economy and a merchant culture to America's interior.
At the same time, she analyzes how these priorities resulted in a new approach to urban planning."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0801879256 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780801879258 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning New York (State) History 19th century.
Cities and towns New York (State) History 19th century.
Architecture New York (State) History.
Architecture New York (State) History 19th century.
Urbanisme New York (État) Histoire 19e siècle.
Villes New York (État) Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture New York (État) Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture New York (État) Histoire.
Architecture.
Cities and towns.
City planning.
Stadtplanung
City planning New York (State)
Cities and towns New York (State)
Architecture New York (State)
New York (State)
New York

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Creating the North American landscape.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232836
Call No.: HT167.N5 S53 2004
Status: Available