The American Urban Form: A Worried View of Economics

by Andrew Whittemore, Sam Bass Warner, Jr., Andrew H. Whittemore

Book Overview

American urban form -- the spaces, places, and boundaries that define city life -- has been evolving since the first settlements of colonial days. The changing patterns of houses, buildings, streets, parks, pipes and wires, wharves, railroads, highways, and airports reflect changing patterns of the social, political, and economic processes that shape the city. In this book, Sam Bass Warner and Andrew Whittemore map more than three hundred years of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262017210
• ISBN13: 9780262017213
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher