The rise of cities in the United States from the early
seventeenth century to the 1960s is the subject of this
sophisticated and witty appraisal by a Pulitzer Prize
historian.
Constance McLaughlin Green traces the forces - economic,
political, social - that led to today's urban civilization,
beginning with the growth of colonial seaports and local
government, the rise of new cities that competed for wealth and
power with the older cities, the spread of industrialization,
transportation and communications that made complex city life
possible. She discussed the influence of city life on art and
architecture, the impact of depression and prosperity upon urban
centres, and analyses present-day problems - race-relations, the
population explosion, automation, the rise of suburbia, and the
development of the 'megapolis' that links city with city in one
vast urban interstate region.
This book was first published in 1966.
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