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The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban
America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed
historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history
literature added to the canon since the publication of the second
edition. The authors' extensively revised introductions and the
fifteen reprinted articles trace urban development from the
preindustrial city to the twentieth-century city. With emphasis on
the social, economic, political, commercial, and cultural aspects
of urban history, these essays illustrate the growth and change
that created modern-day urban life. Dynamic topics such as
technology, immigration and ethnicity, suburbanization, sunbelt
cities, urban political history, and planning and housing are
examined. The Making of Urban America is the only reader available
that covers all of U.S. urban history and that also includes the
most recent interpretive scholarship on the subject.
This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first
edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition.
With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and
Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical
overview of the formation and growth of North American regions from
European exploration and colonization to the second half of the
twentieth century. Collectively the contributors explore the key
themes of acquisition of geographical knowledge, cultural transfer
and acculturation, frontier expansion, spatial organization of
society, resource exploitation, regional and national integration,
and landscape change. With six new chapters, redrawn maps, a new
introduction that explores scholarly trends in historical geography
since publication of the first edition, and a new final chapter
guiding students to the basic sources for historical geographic
enquiry, North America will be an indispensable text in historical
geography courses.
Before Renaissance examines a half-century epoch during which
planners, public officials, and civic leaders engaged in a dialogue
about the meaning of planning and its application for improving
life in Pittsburgh. Planning emerged from the concerns of
progressive reformers and businessmen over the social and physical
problems of the city. In the Steel City enlightened planners such
as Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and Frederick Bigger pioneered the
practical approach to reordering the chaotic urban-industrial
landscape. In the face of obstacles that included the embedded
tradition of privatism, rugged topography, inherited built
environment, and chronic political fragmentation, they established
a tradition of modern planning in Pittsburgh. Over the years a
m+lange of other distinguished local and national figures joined in
the planning dialogue, among them the park founder Edward Bigelow,
political bosses Christopher Magee and William Flinn, mayors George
Guthrie and William Magee, industrialists Andrew Carnegie and
Howard Heinz, financier Richard King Mellon, and planning
luminaries Charles Mulford Robinson, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.,
Harland Bartholomew, Robert Moses, and Pittsburgh's Frederick
Bigger. The famed alliance of Richard King Mellon and Mayor David
Lawrence, which heralded the Renaissance, owed a great debt to
Pittsburgh's prior planning experience. John Bauman and Edward
Muller recount the city's long tradition of public/private
partnerships as an important factor in the pursuit of orderly and
stable urban growth. Before Renaissance provides insights into the
major themes, benchmarks, successes, and limitations that marked
the formative days of urban planning. It defines Pittsburgh's key
role in the vanguard of the national movement and reveals the
individuals and processes that impacted the physical shape and form
of a city for generations to come.
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