Constructing the Patriarchal City: Gender and the Built Environments of London, Dublin, Toronto, and Chicago, 1870s into the 1940s

by Maureen A. Flanagan

Book Overview

In the Anglo-Atlantic world of the late nineteenth century, groups of urban residents struggled to reconstruct their cities in the wake of industrialization and to create the modern city. New professional men wanted an orderly city that functioned for economic development. Women's vision challenged the men's right to reconstruct the city and resisted the prevailing male idea that women in public caused the city's disorder.

Constructing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439915709
• ISBN13: 9781439915707
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"