American Urban Form

A Representative History

Sam Bass Warner Jr., Andrew Whittemore, Andrew Whittemore

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MIT Press
16 August 2013

City & town planning - architectural aspects

Series: Urban and Industrial Environments

An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis.

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 the American city through the evolution of urban form. They do this by offering an illustrated history of ""the City""-a hypothetical city (constructed from the histories of Boston, Philadelphia, and New York) that exemplifies the American city's transformation from village to regional metropolis.

In an engaging text accompanied by Whittemore's detailed, meticulous drawings, they chart the City's changes. Planning for the future of cities, they remind us, requires an understanding of the forces that shaped the city's past.

By: Sam Bass Warner Jr., Andrew Whittemore
Drawings by: Andrew Whittemore
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 367g
ISBN: 9780262525329
ISBN 10: 0262525321
Series: Urban and Industrial Environments
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 16 August 2013
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sam Bass Warner, noted urban historian and Visiting Professor of Urban History at MIT, is the author of The Urban Wilderness- A History of the American City and other books. Andrew H. Whittemore is Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Texas Arlington. Andrew H. Whittemore is Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Texas Arlington.

Reviews for American Urban Form: A Representative History

...American Urban Form stands out as a concise narration of the various dynamics that shaped the physical form of the American metropolis...The book is highly engaging in its technical descriptions, which are supported by excellent hand drawings by Whittemore. -Garyfalia Palaiologou, The Journal of Space Syntax