From Improvement to City Planning: Spatial Management in Cincinnati from the Early Republic Through the Civil War Decade

by Henry C. Binford

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439920850
• ISBN13: 9781439920855
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 373 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"