Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press ; President and Fellows of Harvard College, ©1963.

Description:

xii, 299 pages ; 20 cm.

Series:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; 53

Notes:
"This book is one of a series published under the auspices of the Joint Center for Urban Studies"--P. facing t.p.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The modern city as a field of historical study / Oscar Handlin -- The crossroads within the wall / Robert S. Lopez -- The economic significance of cities / Shiegto 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 -- 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 order / Sylvia L. Thrupp -- The death of the city: a frightened look at postcivilization / Kenneth E. Boulding -- Implications of modern city growth / Denis W. Brogan -- 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 -- 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 and Atlee E. Shidler -- Some afterthoughts / John Burchard.
Library c. 2: 4th paperback printing, 1977.

ISBN:

0262580063
9780262580069

Subject:

Urbanization Innovations Environmental aspects.
Cities and towns
Urbanization
City planning

Form/genre:

Conference publications.

Added entries:

Burchard, John E. (John Ely), 1898-1975.
Handlin, Oscar, 1915-2011.
Handlin, Oscar, 1915-
Joint Center for Urban Studies
Conference on the City in History (1961 : Cambridge, Mass.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; 53.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 153753
Call No.: NA9010 .H5 1963a
Copy: copy 2
Status: Available