The Organic City: Urban Definition and Neighborhood Organization 1880-1920

by Patricia Mooney Melvin

During the late nineteenth century rapid social and economic changes negated the prevailing conception of the city as a uniform whole. Confronted with this disparity between the old urban definition and the new city of the late nineteenth century, social thinkers searched for a new concept that would correspond more closely to the divided urban community around them. Borrowing an analogy from natural history, these thinkers conceived of the city as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813153778
• ISBN13: 9780813153773
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher