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From Improvement to City Planning - Spatial Management in Cincinnati from the Early Republic through the Civil War Decade (Paperback)
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From Improvement to City Planning - Spatial Management in Cincinnati from the Early Republic through the Civil War Decade (Paperback)
Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
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From Improvement to City Planning emphasizes the ways people in
nineteenth-century America managed urban growth. Historian Henry
Binford shows how efforts to improve space were entwined with the
evolution of urban governance (i.e., regulation)-and also
influenced by a small group of advantaged families. Binford looks
specifically at Cincinnati, Ohio, then the largest and most
important interior city west of the Appalachian Mountains. He shows
that it was not just industrialization, but also beliefs about
morality, race, health, poverty, and "slum" environments, that
demanded an improvement of urban space. As such, movements for
public parks and large-scale sanitary engineering in the 1840s and
'50s initiated the beginning of modern city planning. However,
there were limitations and consequences to these efforts.. Many
Americans believed that remaking city environments could also
remake citizens. From Improvement to City Planning examines how the
experiences of city living in the early republic prompted city
dwellers to think about and shape urban space.
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