City Building on the Eastern Frontier: Sorting the New Nineteenth-Century City

Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Hardcover. Teal cloth, teal & BW illus. dust jacket, 217 pp., 57 BW illus. VG/VG. Item #148065
ISBN: 0801879256

"Examines the ways in which these new cities [of Rochester and Syracuse, New York] were shaped by a variety of constituents -- founders, merchants, politicians, and settlers -- as opportunities to extend the commercial and social benefits of the market economy and a merchant culture to America's interior. At the same time, [the book] analyzes how these priorities resulted in a new approach to urban planning. Includes archival photos and birds-eye-views of both cities.

Price: $29.97