Boehm, Lisa Krissoff, 1969-

America's urban history / Lisa Krissoff Boehm and Steven H. Corey. - New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. - xi, 413 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-378) and index.

Pre-colonial and seventeenth-century Native American settlements -- Transplanting cities and urban networks : Spain, France, and Holland in colonial America, 1565-1821 -- City, plantation, metropolis : the Anglo-American urban experience, 1587-1800 -- An urban frontier : the American West, 1800-1869 -- The urban cauldron : city growth and the rise of social reform, 1850-1920 -- The urban nation : Middletown and metropolis -- New Deal, new cities : the 1930s -- War and postwar metropolis : cites, suburbs, and exurbs, 1940s-1950s -- The frontier of imagination : American cities in the 1960s -- Attempting revival and renaissance : the 1970s-1980s -- The modern city : fear, technology, and inequality, 1990-present.

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Cities and towns--History.--United States
Ciudades y pueblos--Historia.--Estados Unidos
City and town life--History.--United States
City planning--History.--United States
Planificación urbana--Historia.--Estados Unidos
Urbanization--History.--United States
Urbanización--Historia.--Estados Unidos


United States--Social conditions.
Estados Unidos--Condiciones sociales.
United States--Economic conditions.
Estados Unidos--Condiciones económicas.

HT 123 / B671a 2015

307.760973