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Access, Property and American Urban Space (Paperback)
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Access, Property and American Urban Space (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
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This book explains why the earliest cities had grid-form street
systems, what conditions led to their being overwhelmingly
preferred for 5000 years throughout the world, why the Founding
Fathers wanted gridform cities and how they affect economic
transactions. Real property has been instrumental in forming urban
settlements for 5000 years, but virtually all urban form
commentary, theory and research has ignored this reality. The
result is an incomplete and flawed understanding of cities. Real
property became a means of arranging spatial patterns caused by
millennia of human evolutionary and historical developments with
respect to access and movement. As a result, access to resources of
all types became a regulatory mechanism controlled, at least in
part, by real property ownership. The effects of real property on
urban spatial patterns are currently best seen by examining
American urban space, which has changed significantly over the past
200 years. This change, which began in the 1840s and established
path dependence through a combination of design thought,
sentimental pastoralism and financial prowess resulted in an urban
regime shift that diminished economic resilience. This book offers
a rethinking of how real property relates to real space, examines
the thought of form promoters, links space, property, neurological
evolution and settlement form, shows access is measurable and
describes the plusses and minuses of functionalism, rent seeking,
general purpose technology, grid-form street systems and what the
American Founding Fathers thought about urban form.
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